[LargeFormat] Karsh camera?

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Well there's the other end of the spectrum..

I'm a bit fuzzy on the fine details, but the McIntosh  collection ( a 
group of furniture design by George? McIntosh) was about to be sold to 
a major collector and put the family on Easy Street until THE 
Government stepped in and said, "This is a pricesless bit of Canadian 
history!" and passed a law about no allowing "priceless pieces of 
Canadian history" to be sold outside the country.  I think they paid 
the family about a third of what was offered outside the maple leaf 
curtain.  I don't know if the Royal Ontario Museum owns the collection 
but that's where I saw it.

Now had there been proof that this was the camera Karsh used to 
photograph Winnie  and there was a photograph of Karsh next to the 
camera.....then maybe we'd get to the "pricess..history" arena.


On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 05:05  PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> >As Karsh passed away
> > this Camera became a priceless piece of Canadian history.
>
>
> And, that's why they're selling it to anyone in the world via ebay... 
> because they care about a priceless piece of CANADIAN history?
>
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>
>
>
> tOM Trottier wrote:
>> FYI
>> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
>> Date:    	Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:45:28 -0500
>> Subject: 	[tm] Re: Question for seller -- Item #2573232761
>> From:    	Serge Kopeikine <serge@studionine.tv>
>> Hello Tom, ...
>> About Dollar bill (I believe it was for year 1973 and up) $1, $20 and 
>> $50. This information was given to us by Edward Green(Karsh's 
>> personal assistant) and is stated as per his words. Richies 
>> auctioneers confirmed that this camera indeed was used by Yousef 
>> Karsh. Note: The Queen was photographed by Yousef and the back side 
>> of the bill was done by his brother I don't think he used the same 
>> camera (just for your information). This Camera was used as a center 
>> piece in our studio, but we moved and no longer have space for it. As 
>> Karsh passed away this Camera became a priceless piece of Canadian 
>> history.  Regards, Serge, Studio 9
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