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September Auction Team Breker Salesroom Roundup

KÖLN, GERMANY – An early American typewriter, a rare miniature & Co. in Stockholm. Known to collectors as
globe and one of the first wall telephones by L.M. Ericsson were just three the ‘coffin’, this model with Bell-type receiver
of the highlights from Auction Team Breker’s marathon sale of historic and helical microphone was produced for one year
technology on September 16-17, 2022. Spanning two days, three only. Lars Magnus Ericsson opened his workshop in
centuries and over eight-hundred lots, Breker’s auction catalogue presented Stockholm in 1876 for the maintenance of telegraphs
material from many segments: optics, navigation, timekeeping, commu- and other small-scale engineering jobs. Hands-on experience
nications, and entertainment. The first day focused on photography. with the repair and installation of the new telephone
Amongst the highlights was a Leica M4 camera with a desirable black technology led Ericsson to construct his own version of
paint finish and an attractive patina. the telephone in 1878.
Lot 15: Leica M4 No. 1266469, c. 1970 Lot 326: Skeleton telephone
Sold: $5,180 No. 370 / AC 100 by L.M. Ericsson, c. 1890
With the introduction of Sold: $5,085
the Leica I in 1925, Ernst Blurring the boundaries between parlor and public
Leitz revolutionized the entertainment was a comprehensive collection of mechanical music
world of compact 35mm instruments that encompassed cylinder and disc musical boxes, pneumatic
photography. instruments, and talking machines.
In 1862, Charles Gustave The birthplace of the disc musical box was Leipzig in Saxony. Paul
Anthoni, a mechanic from Lochmann, inventor of the disc-playing musical box, and his competitors
Paris, patented a photo- the Polyphon and the Symphonion Musikwerke built music machines
graphic apparatus for the with programmable sound in a variety of sizes, from decorative
sensitization and rapid models for the home to floor-standing furniture for hotels
development of collodion plates inside the camera. Breker’s auction and hostelries. Several makers also branched out into the
offered a previously unrecorded portable camera based around Anthoni’s production of gramophones, seeking to capitalize on
design, with box-form body and four compartments for chemicals, plates the new technology of recorded sound.
and two baths of developing solution doubling up as a portable darkroom. Lot 684: No. 88 horn gramophone with Art-
Lot 260: Jackson typewriter, No. 705, Jackson Typewriter Co., Nouveau plaques of female dancers, Polyphon
Roxbury, Massachusetts, c. 1898 Musikwerke, Leipzig, c. 1918
Sold: $22,895 Sold: $4,400
Leading a fine selection of office antiques Auction Team Breker’s next sale of science and
was a rare surviving example of the technology, featuring an important archive of Pathé
elusive Jackson typewriter by the Jackson 28mm films, takes place on November 5, 2022.
Typewriter Co. of Roxbury, MA. The For news of future sales, highlights and results,
promotional pamphlet from 1899 visit: www.breker.com
promised a revelation to its users.
The Jackson was the only
machine that “keeps ahead of the
fastest operator.” It had fewer parts
than the standard machine and was more
durable, for “as everyone knows, the greater the
complexity of a machine the greater the
liability to derangement.” Moreover, the Jackson
produced “visible writing” at a time when most
machines were still built for ‘blind writing’.
(When the carriage was down, the type bars
were hidden.)
Lot 280: Sholes & Glidden Type Writer,
No. 189A, E. Remington & Sons, Ilion, New
York, c. 1893; Sold: $19,080
Other milestones of communication
history included the first complete wall tele-
phone unit manufactured by L. M. Ericsson

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