Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] HCB and his Leica
From: Peter Goldberg <peterg@martinhamblin.com>
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 09:13:23 -0400

Marc James Small wrote:

>
>
> Hardly!  The IIIg wasn't released until 1957 and, even though HCB is GOOD,
> even he isn't a chronaltemporist!
>
> Nor was it a Leica G, otherwise known as a IIIa, as this wasn't released
> until 1935.
>
> It might well have been a Leica Standard, Model E, or a Leica I, Model C,
> or a Leica I, Model B Compur, or a Leica I, Model A, or even a Luxus or a
> or a Leica II, Model D,  all of which were in production in or before1932.
>
>

There is a  fashion plate  photo of HCB, as a  young man  (looking rather like
a smooth J.Crew ad person) with a black II and a VIDOM (??) v/f.

Peterg