Black Nikon
SP
Featured in our Fall 2001 Auction |
Leica
M3 Black Enamel, with body caps
Featured in our Fall 2002 Auction |
Leica
MP-261 with 50mm Elmar f3,5
Featured in our Fall 2002 Auction |
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TAMARKIN PHOTOGRAPHICA
Tamarkin Photographica is America's foremost auction company specializing
in fine collectible photo equipment.
In the fall of 1996 we held our first auction, and since then we
have made it a biennial event, in the spring and in the fall, and
we have auctioned over a $2,000,000 of collectible camera gear.
Our fees for the buyer and for the seller are the lowest in the
world auction market and we have attracted major collectible items
like the black Leica MP-2, Leica 72 half-frame, Leica B Dialset
Compur, black Leica MP, Leica 250, Zeiss Hologon camera, pre-war
Zeiss Olympic Sonnars, black Nikon, 50mm Nikkor f1,1 & Micro-Nikkor,
SP Motor,and many other interesting and rare Leica, Nikon, Zeiss,
Canon, Alpa, Rollei, and Kodak collectibles.
All of us who have been collecting in the last thirty years during
the collectibles boom, particularly in Leica collectibles, have
enjoyed the spirit of the hunt, the assembling of camera collections
that match our enthusiasms and love of photography, and, for some,
the desire to make our hobbies into sound investments.
What makes more sense than a rare camera auction as part of your
estate planning or, simply, your wish to achieve the highest possible
price for your collectibles?
Instead of selling your favorite pieces at a wholesale price to
a camera dealer, consigning them to a fine camera auction held by
Tamarkin Photographica promises the highest return with most convenience
for you.
Six advantages to selling
your collectibles in one of our auctions:
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Tamarkin
Photographica will sell your collectibles through competitive,
open world-wide bidding-the surest means of achieving the
highest price commensurate with market values. |
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We have
a modest and attractive fee structure that benefits both the
buyer and the seller. The seller's cost is 15% (plus a modest fee if the buyer uses a credit card) , and the buyer's fee is only 15%. In no other way
could you effectively market your collectibles and at the same
time have such modest selling expenses. |
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Tamarkin
Photographica's beautifully illustrated catalogues, mailing
lists, and advertisements reach collectors wherever there is
interest in collectibles, and we have been quite successful
in attracting buyers here in America as well as from camera
collectors in England, Japan, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, France,
Greece, Korea, Austria, Sweden and other countries. Our auction
catalogues are handsome, clear, and informative. In fact, for
many collectors they have become reference tools themselves.
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We offer
free appraisals by acknowledged collectibles experts who have
been buying and selling collectibles for over thirty years,
and we cooperate with you in making a sensible "reserve"
price on your collectibles so that you can be assured that
not one of your collectibles will be sold at too low a price.
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For major
collections we are pleased to travel to you to make an accurate
inventory and to undertake the packing and shipping to our
offices. Of course every consignment to a Tamarkin Photographica
auction is fully insured while it is in our possession.
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We feel
that we can do better for you than what you might do yourself
on the internet. While the internet is fine, E-Bay, and other
auction sites, are not without annoying hassles and glitches.
But we think that we can better reach high-paying customers
than you can on the internet. Why? Because we sell to the final
buyer, the collector who is buying because he loves to collect--not
the dealers and auction "pickers" who flood the internet. |
Tamarkin Photographica
holds rare camera auctions twice year, in the spring and in the
fall. We have held our auctions in New York, St. Louis, Tucson,
Chicago, Boston, and Denver before the annual meetings of the Leica
Historical Society of America.
INFORMATION: For more information about our auction schedules,
consignment deadlines, catalogue ordering, or, most importantly,
consigning one of your collectibles, or an entire collection please
call us toll-free at (877) 842-6441 and ask for Stan Tamarkin,
or send an e-mail to auctions@tamarkin.com.
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