Lot 3118
1888-S $20 Liberty. ANACS graded MS-61. Frosty and mostly untoned. Has some marks above the eagle and on the shield, etc. Still lustrous and well struck. A date from the 1880s (PCGS # 9009) .
For trivia buffs, 1888 was the year George Eastman, 34, of Rochester, N.Y., introduced the first simple, inexpensive camera, the Kodak. With the slogan "You push the button; we do the rest," Eastman took photography out of the professional studio and placed it in the hands of the public. For $25 the would-be photographer received a rectangular box camera with focus and shutter speed factory-set and already loaded with film. The early models contained no viewfinder. After snapping all the exposures, the consumer shipped the whole camera off to the Kodak laboratory, where for $10 the pictures were developed and returned with the camera, again preloaded.
Estimated Value $1,250 - 1,300.
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| Realized $1,668 |
