[LargeFormat] Karsh camera?

[LNphoto]

Okay

A furniture collection of 6 pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh


On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 05:30  PM, LNphoto wrote:

> 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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