Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/14

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Subject: [Leica] my first Leica
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sat Feb 14 16:59:34 2009
References: <SUWCL26MG08zhBwSDpd00000fa9@smtpoutcl26.wirelesssyncvzw.net>

At 06:52 PM 2/14/2009, Barney Quinn wrote:
 >
 >How well I remember Industrial Photo. Unfortunately they went out of
 >business some years ago, a victim of the switch from silver to digital.
 >
 >I got my first two Leicas about the same time you did. My friend Alan
 >Wurzbach's Dad had been stationed in Germany at the end of World War
 >II. He came back to the us with what I think are two IIIc's I think.
 >When they were cleaning out his Dad's house he sold me the collection
 >for $125. I still have them. They still work just fine. They live in
 >my closet next to a pair of antique Plath sextants.

Why not post the s/n here, Barney?  We can 
decipher the provenance of these for you, I damnbetcha!

Marc


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