Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >X-Priority: 3 > >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 > >X-Info: BrunNet, Inc. 888-278-6638 > >Status: > > > > 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? > > > > PJH > > > > >