Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 4, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Marc wrote: >>> Contax 1. A beast of a camera, heavy, unergonomic, unreliable. But >>> great in a collection to contrast with a Leica. (Traded for a prewar >>> Leica IIIc with Summitar.) >>> Leica IIIc with Summitar (above). Used on honeymoon in the Jurassic >>> era. My wife and I are still married. The camera was stolen. >> >> Larry >> >> A minor quibble. There were no Prewarr IIIc's as the camera was >> introduced only after the outbreak of the Second World War. >> >> Marc My Leica IIIc had a serial number below the 300,xxx range, indicating it was made about 1940 or so. Not prewar for Germany, but prewar for the US. But I bought it in 1950 from Claus Gelotte in Cambridge, MA. So it was certainly postwar for the US, Germany, and me. The markings were in German and it had the 1 cm baseplate tripod socket so I guess it was "liberated" by some returning serviceman. Larry Z .