 George Schaub  100 Year + Voigtländer Q. Enclosed is a picture
of the Voigtländer camera my father purchased at a secondhand
store in London, England, in 1904. It takes 31/2x51/2" glass
plates and a date inside the lens puts its manufacture date as
1896. It was last used in the late 1940s or early '50s when the
glass plates were available from Kodak in England. An inspection
of the camera in '76 found it to be perfectly sound in all
respects. Could you please tell me if this camera has any value
either commercially or as an antique? John A. White The
Villages, FL  A. Although you did not provide the name of the
model Voigtländer camera you own, the detailed photo helped when
I looked through the dozen or so older Voigtländer models
illustrated in my 11th Edition of McKeown's Price Guide to
Antique and Classic Cameras, 2001-2002. Unfortunately, most of
those illustrated were from the 1910s through the '30s and
tended to have newer rim set shutter speeds instead of dial set
speeds as on your camera, so I could