Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A couple of weeks ago, I was at a camera fair in London and discovered a man who restores and sells old every-ready cases. He also offers a repair service. For those of us with classic cameras, this is a guy worth knowing! He seems to have a fair range of cases available, and was able to provide me with an ERC for a Leica IIIg and a rangefinder Contax "from stock". Prices were around $110 and $45 respectively. He doesn’t restore a case until he’s got a customer for it, but that process seems to take less than a week. Inevitably such older cases show their age, but he does a good job of restoring them to the best possible condition - for example, he restitches the leatherwork by hand, using the original holes in the leather. If anyone is looking for a older pattern of case, or needs a case repaired, I’d recommend you give him a try. Reg Smith Camera case sales & repairs 63 Higher Compton Road Harley Plymouth PL3 5JA ENGLAND His phone number is 1752 773790 (you’ll have to add the country code 44 for the UK). That is his home number, and will only get him in the evenings - and that’s in the evening UK time. So from the US East coast you’d need to call around 1 - 4pm US time, and from the West coast around 9 - 12am. Regards, Doug Richardson