Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which model Leica?
From: Skip Williams <skipwilliams@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:04:08 -0400

It's a 1954 IIF with self timer made in a bath of 16,000.  Rather common, 
but it should have red syncro numbers.  Could they have been darkened with 
wear or age?  I didn't think that Black Dial IIIF's were made with self 
timers.  Am I right?

Skip

At 9/30/99 08:20 AM  -0700, you wrote:
>I am truying to identify an old Leica I have had for several years. It
>was made ar Wetzlar, ser. #725 xxx. It looks much like the IIIf I saw a
>photo on a web site, but it has the self timer inverted (the knob ponts
>down) and has black sychro numbers - is this a variation on the IIIf,
>common or rare?
>
>Thanks -
>
>Bill
>
>P.S. I hope it's ok for me to have and use this lovely little German
>camera, since don't drink any kind of ale, stout, or beer, don't drive a
>Porsche (though I used to be a pretty decent Porsche mechanic) and my
>only hat is a nondescipt and nameless khaki fisherman's roll-up ;-)
>


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Skip Williams
Westfield, NJ
skipwilliams@pobox.com
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