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Topic:	[WestLicht] Jim Irwin's Hasselblad camera

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="+0"><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032314a-apollo-moon-camera-auction.html">Moon camera sale soars sky high despite questions about history</a></font> [i]A camera claimed to have been used on the moon's surface sold for almost $1 million in Austria Saturday (March 22), despite concerns about its history. The WestLicht Photographica Auction in Vienna registered a hammer price of 550,000 euros (660,000 euros with the buyer's premium, or about $910,400 US) for a Hasselblad Electronic Data Camera (EDC) that the gallery described as having been used by astronaut James Irwin during the Apollo 15 mission. "This Hasselblad used on the fourth NASA [moon landing] mission between July 26th to August 7th, 1971 made its way back to Earth, finally landing at the WestLicht auction house," the sale's organizers wrote. The final sale price far surpassed the 150,000 to 200,000 euros (about $200,000 to $275,000) that WestLicht had estimated the lunar Hasselblad to be worth. The camera's lot opened for sale at 80,000 euros (about $110,000).[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032314a-apollo-moon-camera-auction.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-032314a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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