Bidspirit auction | Early 20th Century Voigtländer Bessa

Early 20th Century Voigtländer Bessa Folding Medium Format Camera with Leather Case - An early 20th-century folding medium format roll film camera, identified by visual characteristics as a Voigtländer Bessa model, likely dating to the late 1920s or early 1930s. The camera is of metal construction with a black textured leatherette covering and black enamel-painted struts. It features a self-erecting bellows design with a drop-down front bed and a side-mounted shutter release lever integrated into the door mechanism. The lens is a Voigtländer Braunschweig Anastigmat Voigtar 1:7.7, mounted in a leaf shutter providing speeds of 1/25, 1/50, and 1/100 seconds plus Bulb and Time settings. The shutter plate includes focus and aperture scales marked with Portraits, Groups, and Landscapes in red script. The camera is equipped with dual waist-level brilliant finders. A stylized Voigtländer script mark is visible on the side rail of the lens support, and the word GERMANY is embossed into the leatherette on the rear body cover. The lot includes a brown stitched leather carrying case with a shoulder strap; the interior of the case lid bears a hand-written ink inscription reading SHIPTEN 17 LOTHIAN AVE EL.