Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 04/18/2001 10:58:58 PM, you wrote: <<I just sold a IIIcK #391114. The camera had no "K" on the top plate and no "K" stamped on the shutter. From getting it cleaned at Kindermann in Canada, I was told it had a ball-bearing shutter. And most of the Leica books( like Lager's) showed this camera as being in a batch of 200 made from 1943-1944. Possibly made for US or another client? Still not sure.>> If made in 1943-44, no possibility it was made for a US client. In fact, the K stamped shutter models were made for the Nazi Luftwaffe. "K" is for "kalt," as in the cold high altitudes where so much deadly combat took place during World War II. Allen Zak.