Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: KEH gradings
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:59:30 -0400

Austin Franklin jotted down the following:

> I think a lot of this has to do with them trying to go public (a joke, in
> my book).  They bought a multi-million dollar camera collection just to
> have inventory and look good...

Oh, is THAT why they've got all those limited edition Leicas in their
catalogue...  They look a little out of place next to the beaten up Nikon
EL2s, Konica Autoreflex As, and Canonet QL-19 IIIs.

It figures.  When I first saw then, I suspected they'd fallen prey to
delusions of grandeur and forgotten where their core business lay.

M.

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