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What the? A buyer's premium of $750?

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$750 for the added costs of presenting the collectivles in an online format?? For taking a few photos and posting it online?

"This massive lens was made for the U.S. Navy for electro-optical night photography, according to Lager who illustrates two examples. It consists of eight elements in six groups. It was supplied with special extension tubes to fix the focus at 50m, 100m and infinity," see Laney p. 262.

f/1.0... pretty amazing!

4 days to go! The estimate is $10,000 by the way...