Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mine is number 16692xx bought new in 1985 from FotoMika, Uusikaupunki, Finland. Any older than that? Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen nyt myös Kameralehden juttuja suomeksi - ---------- > From: Jan Blomqvist <finalloy@janne.pp.fi> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 HM Serial Numbers... Short! > Date: 12. tammikuuta 1999 14:26 > > My black Leica M6 has number 1724941. I bought it as new from EP-kamera in > Finland many years ago, but I can´t remember when. > > Greetings > > Janne Blomqvist > > At 23:21 11.1.1999 +0000, you wrote: > >My black M6 has a number outside of your range. It is1917569. It is > >obviously the oldest M6 known to this group! I bought it brand new less > >than two years ago (!) from an official Leica agent in Hamburg, Germany. I > >got about 25% off the list price because it was a 'demonstrator' and 'a > >couple of years old'. I called the Leica factory asking them when it was > >manufactured. They said it was 'approx. five years old'. I guess they knew > >better. However, the camera was spotless and came with a full two year > >factory guarantee and the original box. As I not only have a car with a > >starting crank, but also a motor bike which I kick start (BMW 75/6), I am > >not worried the M6 is old, but I do keep a spare battery as it has no > >equivalent to the starting crank/kick starter. > > > >-- > >christer almqvist > >eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 > >14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58 > > > > > >