Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Dates of manufacture
From: "Noel H. Charchuk" <nhcharch@calcna.ab.ca>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:36:42 -0600 (MDT)

Interesting question, Sartoriuos' "Identifying Leica Cameras" only goes
back to ser. # 156001, as well. Could this lens have been converted from a
non-interchangable lens at sometime??
Noel Charchuk

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Michael Bell wrote:

> 
> Could someone please help this fellow out.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> mike
> 
> >Delivered-To: MBell@mail.utexas.edu
> >From: "Peter Hanlon" <peter.hanlon@city.saint-john.nb.ca>
> >To: "Michael Bell" <MBell@mail.utexas.edu>
> >Subject: Dates of manufacture
> >Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:23:57 -0300
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> >     Michael, I'm trying to find the date of manufacture for  an old screw
> >mount Elmar lens, sn #147980. It's a nickel mount, marked in  meters,
> >f3.5-18.   I have the Hove pocket book  and the Leica  The first 60 Years
> >by Rogliatti, but both begin lens numbers at 156001 circa  1933.Do you
> >know of any other sources that go back further?  
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> >             PJH
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