Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/04

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Gear I wish I'd kept.
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Wed Jul 4 21:35:21 2007
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At 10:42 PM 7/4/2007, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
 >

 >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.

Interesting.  The first IIIc was 360101.  Yours 
must have been some sort of ur-camera, the 
mythical missing versuchs-IIIc!  <he grins>  It's 
a shame you no longer have the camera, as it 
would be a big hit at Stan Tamarkin's next auction.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Gear I wish I'd kept.)