Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen wrote: , are their certain items that we should > neither invest in nor profit from? For instance, would anyone on the list > collect a human skin lamp shade? That's rather a facile leap. I was not offering a Jew-skin Leica to the highest bidder. I was looking for information on a family treasure. Please consider these questions: Should we not marvel at a pyramid because it was built by slave labor in the service of a tyrant? Should we shun antique Colt firearms because they were instrumental in the subjugation (some would say genocide) of the aboriginal Americans? "Just a thought." Perhaps Mark Hammons said it best: Addressing the issue of the propriety of collecting WWII Leica equipment, I believe that most folks that do so do so out of making their collection more "complete"... I don't think anything more than Leica Collecting Fever is to blame for the interest in wartime equipment. John Coz