Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitz red dot shortage: Badge
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:20:23 -0800

Doug Richardson wrote:
> 
> snip
> the production line bearing the Leitz name, it's a prized possession.
> (I love using classic Leitz-era cameras for work - it sometimes freaks
> the clients!) As "fitting for a princess descended of so many royal
> kings" she has now been refitted with what I'm told was the last Leitz
> red badge available at Leica UK. The "cunning workman" who did the job
> even removed the minute mark which his predecessor had made in the
> front plate when removing the original badge -snip
> 
> Doug Richardson

You English!! 
"badge"?! 
The Red Dot is the Red Badge?!
Here in the US a Badge is what you see in the Westerns, if its round its
a Dot.
The Red Dot of Courage!
Mark Rabiner