Equipment:comprising a 10 x 8 inch teak-body and lacquered-brass bound field camera with brown-leather bellows, a 5 x 4 inch reducing back, front swing attachment; five 10 x 8 inch darkslides; a Taylor-Hobson Cooke Aviar Anastigmat 12½ inch f/6 lens no. 321198 on pane; four uncut lens panels; matching Gandolfi teak tripod; four 3/8 inch brass tripod screws and one ¼ inch brass tripod screw; a 5 x 4 inch teak-body and lacquered-brass bound field camera with brown leather bellows; five 5 x 4 inch darkslides; two uncut lens panels, one cut panel; a wood and leather light hood; and matching Gandolfi teak tripod

A Gandolfi Archive

Details

Equipment:comprising a 10 x 8 inch teak-body and lacquered-brass bound field camera with brown-leather bellows, a 5 x 4 inch reducing back, front swing attachment; five 10 x 8 inch darkslides; a Taylor-Hobson Cooke Aviar Anastigmat 12½ inch f/6 lens no. 321198 on pane; four uncut lens panels; matching Gandolfi teak tripod; four 3/8 inch brass tripod screws and one ¼ inch brass tripod screw; a 5 x 4 inch teak-body and lacquered-brass bound field camera with brown leather bellows; five 5 x 4 inch darkslides; two uncut lens panels, one cut panel; a wood and leather light hood; and matching Gandolfi teak tripod

Ephemera
An 11 x 12 inch gelatin-silver photograph showing the Gandolfi brother in their workshop, dated 1977, signed F. L. Gandolfi and Arthur E. Gandolfi, and by the photographer Mick Wells, number three of an edition of five; an album containing invoices from Gandolfi & Sons, personal correspondence from the Gandolfis to Mick Wells; Science Museum exhibition press notice and information (1980); Sunday Times (4 March 1984) newspaper cutting

Provenance

Mick Wells, photographer.

Lot Essay

The camera and equipment represents the highest quality and best examples of the Gandolfi brothers work. The invoices and correspondence provide a fascinating insight into the nature of the Gandolfi business and Fred Gandolfi's characteristically forthright views on the press and attention that the firm was receiving in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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