£1,100.00
Introducing the 5th rarest Gold Polaroid Camera on earth.
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Email to a friendIntroducing the 5th rarest Gold Polaroid Camera on earth. Sequentially numbered with Mildred Scheel’s signature. Number 0649/1000
Mildred Scheel was the wife of German President of the Federal Republic Walter Scheel. A great philanthropist and a friend of Andy Warhol, she used her husband’s influence with Polaroid to have 1,000 24k gold-plated cameras specially made to be auctioned for her charity, the German cancer fund “Deutsche Krebshilfe.” The cameras have her engraved signature and were sequentially numbered on the side from 1 to 1,000 They were auctioned off on a TV special auction in 1978.
There are three variations to the gold Polaroid Alpha 1, the first and rarest is the Saudi Prince edition, commissioned so that the Prince can to distribute as gifts. The second variation is the Employee edition of which 500 were produced to be rewarded to Polaroid Employees. And finally the third variation is the one that we have for sale, the Mildred Scheel edition.
This really is a wonderful camera and one that really proves hard to value – how do you put a price on such a piece of history? Its fair to say that the owner of this camera will have something unique that can be handed down to future generations. We hope that this camera brings joy to a true collector of beautiful, vintage, analogue cameras. These cameras truly are a piece of history and art.
This is a fully functional Polaroid Sx-70 Camera and benefits from all those much loved features of the Alpha 1 range; ease of use, fantastically ergonomically and great analogue fun!
The 24k Gold Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 features;
• Flash fill capability – the ability to use flash fill in daylight shadow conditions
• 4-element glass lens, 116 mm, f/8
• Manual distance setting
• Split screen range finder circle
• 10.4-inch (26 cm) minimum focusing distance
• Lighten/darken control setting possibility
• Neck strap connectors and tripod mount
We offer unedited high resolution images for our guests to thoroughly examine our products before they decide to make a purchase. Any significant marks such as large scratches will be highlighted in the item description, however small blemishes, marks and dust particles will not.
Our cameras come in a customised Revival Studio London presentation box.
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