?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(INDUSTRIAL & CONSUMER) Binder entitled "Leitz Ordner," with more than 1200 photographs on approximately 130 pages depicting European trade fairs and scenes of factories where the goods are being produced. Includes images of consumer and office products, all highlighting the golden age of the post-World War II economy in Western Europe. Also with many industrial images depicting the interiors of various factories, with many modernist pictures of heavy machinery, generators, and unidentifiable oversized machine parts. Silver contact prints, various sizes from 1 1/4x1 to 2 1/4x2 1/4 inches (3.1x2.5 to 5.7x5.7 cm.), mounted recto/verso, many with a numeric caption, in ink, below the print, and a few with lengthy captions, in German. Oblong 4to, 2-ring binder with stiff wrappers. 1949-50
Leitz was founded 1871 by Louis Leitz, who developed and introduced the Leitz-Ordner, i.e. the lever arch file. Subsequently, the now-common round hole on the back of the file was added.
