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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Me & My M was: Leica in Vietnam
From: "steve lehuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:00:57 -0500

Bob,
You can actually see what day your M3 was made by going to Stephen Gandys
www.cameraquest.com site. My M2 was made on July 7, 1960.
Steve
Annapolis

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>From: BOB KRAMER <BobKramer@COOPERCARRY.com>
>To: "'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: [Leica] Re:  Me & My M   was: Leica in Vietnam
>Date: Fri, Mar 10, 2000, 10:05 AM
>

> Oh no, you've got it all wrong there Dan.  I'm not as old as my M3... my M3
> is as *young* as I am!  ;-)  Judging by the serial number (800XXX), me and
> my M could have been born in the same month, maybe the same day!  My
> visualization is of a craftsman in Wetzlar giving a final tap to my camera
> with a wooden mallet while at the same time a doctor slaps me on the butt as
> we are both set in motion in early 1955.
>
> Since I bought my camera in Durham, North Carolina, my guess is that it was
> bought new by some doctor at Duke Medical Center and was handled with the
> utmost of care and respect for 25 years.  It *used* to be in really good
> condition... I have always been too rough on my toys.
>
> Bob Kramer
> Atlanta, GA
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica in Vietnam
>>
>>
>> It's funny- Bob Kramer attaches an historical reference to being as old as
>> his M3! I do the same- being a bit younger than my IIIa, and a bit older
>> than my IIIc! I sometimes visualize what was going one when those cameras
>> were 'new', and maybe in the hands of someone who was present at an
>> historical moment...
>