Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/29

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Subject: Re: Give that man a cigar !
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 10:11:05 -0500

At 01:51 AM 11/29/97 EST, Ol' Two-Shoes wrote:
>  Steve - Congratulations,  5  helpful  hints and then you come up
>  with the crux of the matter.  Those $5 ABLON tongue templates
>  are so in demand now, that I have seen them for sale at camera
>  shows for between $75 and $100.  I don't know when the film
>  makers stopped making the long tongues -- any idea ?

1975.  There was a short article on it in VIEWFINDER at the time.

Marc


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