Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:16 AM 1/11/2009, Ted Grant wrote: >Scott asked: > >>> I was over at a friends place tonight and he has an old Leica that he >>> had >bought off this old Russian guy a couple of years back, on the top of the >camera it has embossed 1936 Munich Olympic, has the German bird crest and >the serial number 10606. I do not know just what is meant by "the German bird crest". While Dr Laney's daughter has, so far, cheated me out of several thousand dollars in royalties, her father's work remains valid and decent and I am surprised that you lack a copy of the LEICA COLLECTORS (sic) GUIDE. 10606 would have been a Leica I (non-interchangeable lens) dating from around 1928. The Germans did not run to the engraved top-plates the Russians seem to have thought they loved. Anyone who has compared the dash of, say, a 1966 Jaguar and a 1966 Porsche can see the difference. Stark, bare simplicity counts. Without seeing this gem, I cannot give a dispositive answer but it sure stinks like a bloater left uncovered in the sun for a week to me. I had believed that you had missed the '36 Olympics from the heavy money given you to train Seth Rosner in trapping the elusive Luna Moths for the production of mothballs. What teenie scalpels you guys must have used! How did you do this back in the Pre-Roman days? Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!