Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark it is odd that we have both discovered the same thing about our lenses at about the same time. Mint is serial number 1214390 which puts it in 1953 and was also made in Canada. I bought it from a retired doctor who bought it new. If you find out anything other than from the LUG, please let me know. Bill Grimwood. At 04:58 PM 10/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >I recently acquired a worn, but quite nice, 2.5/12.5cm Leitz Hektor, s/n >1223663. This is a rather nice lens. Mine is a worn, heavily worn, item, >though with clean glass, and fully functional. > >But all of the books I have consulted (Rogliatti, Laney, van Hasbroeck, >Lager) list this lens as entering production in '54. Mine has a '53 >production date. > >Further, Rogliatti and van Hasbroeck both comment that production BEGAN at >Wetzlar and then shifted to Midland. Mine is marked, clearly and >repetitively, CANADA. > >Any thoughts? Do I have a simple Rare Collectible, worth Billions? Or >should I just take some picutres with the thing? > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > >