Inventions & Technology Auction
Inventions & technology auction featuring premier selections from the distinguished Dale Beeks, Allen Koenigsberg, and Howard Hazelcorn collections, this curated auction presents a captivating journey across the frontiers of early science, visual culture, and vintage entertainment. Highlights include 19th- and early 20th-century brass theodolites, transit levels, maritime sextants, and research microscopes from master makers like Bausch & Lomb, Cooke, Troughton & Simms, and Keuffel & Esser. Simultaneously, visual media and pre-cinema wonders tore down geographic walls: cased daguerreotypes, daguerrian tokens, ambrotypes, tintypes, magic lantern slides, zoetropes, and stereoview collections transported families to distant lands. Sound and industry bridged physical divides, as telegraph sounders tapped out Morse code, oak magneto telephones carried voices across continents, early light bulbs illuminated growing cities, and railroad lanterns guided engines linking communities. In laboratories, early electrotherapeutic cabinets and quack medicine devices pushed human vision and health past natural limits. Finally, this era culminated in pure wonder. Grand movie palaces offered cathedrals of escape through historic architectural elements, lobby relics, and theater seating, while antique Seeburg and Wurlitzer coin pianos brought automated music to parlor halls. Live auction with online bidding.
