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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitz red dot shortage: Badge
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:08:23 -0600 (CST)

Yeah, Mark...we can say anything about them Brits....they 
ain't even got no guns.........:)
Walt

On Wed, 10 Feb
1999, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> 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
> 
>