A piece of photographic history is up for auction if anyone has a a few hundred thousand euro they’ve been saving for a rainy day (starting bid is €200,000; it is expected to fetch between €500,000 and €700,000).

“The wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux, the brother in law of the inventor of the camera. The camera is signed by Jacques Mande Daguerre to verify that the device is authentic.”

Signed by Daguerre? Wow. Made in 1839 by his brother-in-law? Wow. But worried you might not know how to use it? Fear not … it comes with the manual:

The camera was found in Northern Germany and is in outstanding condition and even has the manual written in German that goes along with the camera.

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