World’s Oldest Camera Auctioned off for Nearly $800,000

Any of you antique lovers out there must have heard of the “Daguerreotype.” Well, the world’s oldest commercially-produced camera, an 1839 Susse Freres wooden box Daguerreotype camera, was auctioned off in Vienna on May 25th for about US $792,000 (nearly 600000 Euros) to an anonymous bidder. The ancestor of modern photography was made by French firm Susse Freres and was found in a German attic. The Daguerreotype camera is crafted out of soft wood and weighs somewhere between 11 and 13 pounds. Well, the pictures developed by this camera exist only once and cannot be reproduced. Bids for this antique piece were placed from around the world, including South Korea, Japan, the U.S. and France. The starting bidding price was $134,610.

via RealInterestingNews

Tags: Vienna, Daguerreotype, Auctions, Cameras
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