Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Does anyone out there know if the bakelite lens cases made for various >lenses ever had codenames? I have cases for the 2.8 Hektor, 3.5 Summaron, 5.0 >Summitar, 9.0 Elmar and 13.5 Hektor. The 1954 Product Directory published by Leitz New York lists the following: 14,590 BOORW Plastic case for sm 28 Hektor, 35 Elmar/Summaron, 50 Elmar 14,600 BOOSK ditto for 50 Summitar, Summicron or Summarit 14,605 BOOPV ditto for 90 Elmar 14,610 BDOOZ ditto for 135 Hektor Note that "plastic" is Leitz's word, not mine. The products, however, are not illustrated in the catalog. While I couldn't find references to or pictures of these items in other standard literature (e.g. postwar Morgan & Morgan Leica Manuals, Lager, Laney), I did note that the product codes for leather lens cases appearing in a 1936 catalog reproduced in Lager's "Leica Literature" were the same as those in the 1954 Product List. One might safely assume that the codes for the plastic cases remained unchanged during the period of their availability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by Roy C. Zartarian "The stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone"