Wollensak Verito 18-Inch /f4 Diffused Focus Lens --READ!

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Ready to Shoot -- Get this amazing wide-open lens now!!!
I am giving up large format photography -- reluctantly -- because the equipment is getting too heavy for me to carry and lift.  My great reluctance to give it up is largely due to these big Verito lenses.  I have owned five or six of these babies, and I love the crazy swirls it gives me when shooting landscapes and cityscapes, as well as the soft-focussy-yet-sharp-in-the-eyes look that it renders on portraits whenever I shoot with it wide open.
The black enamel on the lens barrel shows some wear, scratches, and residue (it looks as if someone had taped something on the barrel).  In addition, there is a dent in the front rim.  The glass is clear, but there is a "speck"--it may be a scratch, I'm not sure--about 2 mm long and 1 mm wide on the inside of the rear element.  Otherwise, the glass has no burrs, no balsam separation, no haze.  There may, of course, be tiny cleaning marks on a lens this old.  The one issue with this lens is that the shutter doesn't work.  It has no iris -- but you were going to shoot it wide-open anyway, weren't you?  The Actually, the iris blades are included with the lens, but they are detached from the lens and packaged separately.
This is a fabulous lens, and it's ready too shoot wide-open, with a hat for a shutter.  I've used this technique often, and it works well.
The lens comes with a retaining ring. None of these problems will have any effect on the quality of the images that this lens will take.  For its age, I consider this lens to be in Excellent condition.
The shipping charges reflects professional FedEx packing, insurance, and shipping.  Sorry, I will not save money on shipping by stuffing expensive photographic equipment into cheap cardboard UPSP mailers, padded with crumpled newspapers, and sealed with scotch tape and string.
I only ship within the continental United States.
Good luck, and happy bidding.