Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Can anyone enlighten me about the small black seal above the M lens mount. >Didn't an L stamped into the wax indicate that the camera was never >worked on (opened up)? I looked at a friend's recently purchased M3 (in >virtually new condition) and noticed that there was nothing stamped in. . >.just >slightly uneven wax. I checked my own M6 bodies. . .an older classic >(never repaired) also had no marking . . .but a more recent M6HM had >a distinct x stamped in. What's the story and what happened to the L? My M2 (1965) which went to be CLA'd by Leitz in Luton, Bedfordshire, England back in the mid-'80s, has an italic script capital 'B' stamped on the black seal My M6 (1985) has simply a black Phillips-head screw on the 12 o'clock. On my M4 (1968)there was a letter on the wax, but much has become scraped off. My M3 (1965)has a raised gothic 'L' on the wax seal. I presume this mean it's never been serviced. It needs one as cognoscenti would notice that the wind-on is not as smooth as it should be.