Gandolfi 10×8 Special Order Red Bellows Version ~ Ex-John Couzins, Unused!

An ultra special opportunity to own an ultra special camera.

Made to special order in 1974 for the great John Couzins who was an immense fan of the Gandolfi brothers, even did work for them.

This camera was purchased to compliment his normal version which he used for all of his work, so this one….he never used it.

Condition is as per the detailed photos in the gallery here and as you can see, they just don’t come any better than this…we want it ourselves but can’t justify it right now so are pained to be offering this magnificent and histrorically beautiful camera.

Read it’s whole story HERE.  Some of the paperwork shown there, signed by Fred Gandolfi (below) will be supplied to maintain the unique provenance for future generations.

Also supplied but not shown are it’s original 5×4 reducing back, made to match and Copal 3 lensboard plus a very rare uncut lensboard.

In order to purchase this beautiful camera a few rules apply:

• First and foremost NO Paypal.  The fees are far too high, you can pay them if you want to but we cannot!
• Carriage, wherever you are in the world, will be at the buyer’s expense.  We feel that this should remain in the UK 😉
• You will enquire about carriage before buying, it may not be cheap and we don’t want any grumbles.
• You will not haggle.  This is a commission sale based on a carefully considered price, one we think is quite honestly too low.
• You promise to take care of it, use it maybe, but treat it lovingly.
• You understand exactly what this is by reading the article we wrote about this camera, John and the Gandolfi brothers HERE or by using the QR code in gallery.

For overseas buyers, please be aware that as a commission sale the VAT implications apply to us as the vendor and will have to be paid upon our fee.   There is therefore no VAT liablility to drop off the sale price, so you may have to deal with whatever taxation your country imposes when it arrives there.