Rare 16mm Siemens Busch-Glauker F2 lens+original Film Cassette!

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....... 3-DAY AUCTION! Produced in 1933, this movie camera is equipped with a Busch Glaukar Anastigmatic 1:2,8/20mm lens. It is a 16mm, with a cartridge Siemens.The body is metal, covered by black leather. Siemens & Halske AG was a German electrical engineeringcompany founded in 1847 as Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske by Ernst Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske. Located in Berlin, the company specialized in manufacturing electrical telegraphs. In 1848, it constructed one of the first European telegraph lines from Berlin to Frankfurt. Siemens & Halske quickly expanded with representatives in Great Britain (Carl Wilhelm Siemens) and Russia (Carl Heinrich von Siemens) a well as cable-manufacturing plants at Woolwich and Saint Petersburg. The company’s rise was supported by Werner von Siemens’ patent of the electrical generator (dynamo) in 1867. Siemens manufactured a few 8mm and 16mm amateur movie cameras in the 1930s. I am not a camera expert, but this appear to be a nice example and appears in good condition. Crank turns very smoothly and cameras runs. The leather handle is not there. The perk is an original Siemens film cassette designed for the camera. It still has the protective metal tab that would be removed when inserted the cassette into the camera. It may have exposed but also may be unexposed, I don' read more

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