Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for shedding some light on the numbers Mark. Chris Williams - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] M3 seal > At 06:22 PM 4/9/2001 -0500, onetreehillclw wrote: > >I have a M3 that instead of the "L" seal, the camera has the > >number 92 in the seal hole. I know the camera has been taken > >apart for cleaning, I just have never seen numbers in the place > >of the "L" seal. It is a double stroke from 1957. > > Chris > > I recall that the numbers were used to denote authorized independent repair > folks, which would mean that your camera was disassembled at some such > facility in the past and then the seal was so marked to indicate this > service. But I can't lay my hands on the source of this at the moment. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >