Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/04
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Marvin Moss wrote:
>> I don't read German either but I think that "Gravur die"
>> refers to a map of Germany, not to engraving per se...
>> Maybe our German speaking members would enlighten us.
"Gravur" is, as it sounds, 'engraving'; "die" is 'the'. The
passage in question reads:
> Diese Kameras trugen auf der Deckkappe oben als Gravur die
> Silhouette der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sowie...
= These cameras carried on the top plate as [an] engraving the
= outline of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as...
-- Eric Meyer.