Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/08

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Subject: [Leica] 1936 ii/iii a/f/g Olympics seen at flea market.
From: eduardoalbesi at ciudad.com.ar (Eduardo Albesi)
Date: Sun Oct 8 16:58:29 2006
References: <000501c6eb30$81ba36e0$6401a8c0@opportunity>

Lew, the crescent shaped cam on the rangefinder arm reveals it as a  
Fed, a soviet Leica copy.
It may be worth usd 60-110

Best
Ed


El 08/10/2006, a las 20:21, Lew escribi?:

> I just saw what appears to be a store demo of a Leica made for the  
> 36 Olympics. I don't know my ii's from
> iii's but here's what I did notice. (Sorry if my part names are  
> off.) First, the body was 'open' so you could
> see the film advance and take up mechanisms. The lens screwed into  
> a distance scale which in turn screwed into
> the body. The focusing arm had a crescent shaped thingy to ride on  
> the back of the lens' focusing cam instead
> to the circular piece I'm familiar with. The remainder of the body  
> was very clean and the black top plate with
> sn and 36 Olympics engraved and painted in red and white. The  
> dealer claims that this is a museum piece, but I
> don't know if I should believe him. Could it be for real? Any way  
> to establish its worth?
> -Lew
>
>
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