Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/03

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Subject: [Leica] Free Leica camera bag
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Sun Feb 3 09:05:30 2008
References: <00940D7E75BE7A903D70881C@hindolveston.reid.org>

B rian,

Is it still available? I will gladly pay the postage and give it a  
good home.

Barney


On Feb 2, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

> I bought this leather Leica-branded camera bag in 1972.
>
> http://reid.org/~brian/images/ZJ7X4937.jpg
>
> It was actually a pretty good camera bag for its era. But I don't  
> want it any more and will happily give it to anyone who really  
> wants it and is willing to pay postage. It is disturbingly heavy  
> for something that's designed to be carried around (3kg) but it's  
> solid as can be, and has the word "Leica" stamped on it in two  
> places. On the bottom it says "Leica, Rockleigh NJ".
>
> I'm sure this is some classic Leica camera bag. In my foolish youth  
> I bought several camera bags just because they said "Leica" on  
> them, and this is the only one that didn't fall apart within a year.
>
> There's a little sewing work that might be done at on the corner  
> visible at the left in this photograph, but other than that it's  
> quite undamaged. No, I no longer have the key.
>
>
>
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