Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/04

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Subject: Re: Paint or Engraving?
From: Eric Meyer <74415.1305@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:17:18 -0400

To:  >INTERNET:Leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

Marvin Moss wrote:
  >> I don't read German either but I think that "Gravur die"
  >>  refers to a map of Germany, not to engraving per se...
  >>  Maybe our German speaking members would enlighten us.

     "Gravur" is, as it sounds, 'engraving'; "die" is 'the'.  The
passage in question reads:

  > Diese Kameras trugen auf der Deckkappe oben als Gravur die
  > Silhouette der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sowie...

  = These cameras carried on the top plate as [an] engraving the
  = outline of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as...

              -- Eric Meyer.