Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/04

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Subject: Re: Off topic: ALPA
From: gmrobinson@mmm.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 08:03:43 -0500
 
>At 10:43 AM 6/3/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anybody know how to distinguish a fake 10D from a genuine one? ALPA 
>home page warns there are a lot of fake mint ALPA bodies surfacing lately,
>but don't really give a clue.

I was told many years ago by an Alpa collector that a large shipment of
Alpa cameras was hijacked on its way to the US.  Perhaps these "fake"
cameras are the hijacked cameras.

Glen Robinson