Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:03 PM 6/5/98 -0500, Bielecki wrote: > >But what does the "316" in the June 1939 batch run mean? As another >example, my 1954 M-3 has a serial number of 704088. I take it that the >"4,088" figure is the actual production number, but what does the "70" mean? >Likewise for my 50mm Summicron with a number of 1234208. All those numbers >must mean something. "704088" means that yours is the 704,088th Leica camera made and serial-numbered. Period. There is no other significance to the numbers. They begin at 1, and have run to whatever they are today. There are two number sequences, one for cameras, the other for lenses. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!