Golden Polaroid SX-70 Alpha One with limited edition number : 650.
It’s the so called SX-70 Alpha 1 "Mildred Scheel" camera which is numbered and engraved with Mildred Scheel's signature.
Mildred Scheel was the wife of the West German Bundespresident Walter Scheel. A great philanthropist and a friend of Andy Warhol, she used her husband's influence with Polaroid to have 1,000 24k gold-plated cameras specially made to be auctioned for her charity, the German cancer fund "Deutsche Krebshilfe."
The cameras have her engraved signature and were sequentially numbered on the side from 1 to 1,000 They were auctioned off on a TV special auction in 1978 at the time.
