Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/08

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Subject: [Leica] 1936 ii/iii a/f/g Olympics seen at flea market.
From: lew at fastmail.fm (Lew)
Date: Sun Oct 8 16:21:46 2006
 
I just saw what appears to be a store demo of a Leica made for the 36 
Olympics. I don't know my ii's from
iii's but here's what I did notice. (Sorry if my part names are off.) First, 
the body was 'open' so you could
see the film advance and take up mechanisms. The lens screwed into a 
distance scale which in turn screwed into
the body. The focusing arm had a crescent shaped thingy to ride on the back 
of the lens' focusing cam instead
to the circular piece I'm familiar with. The remainder of the body was very 
clean and the black top plate with
sn and 36 Olympics engraved and painted in red and white. The dealer claims 
that this is a museum piece, but I
don't know if I should believe him. Could it be for real? Any way to 
establish its worth?
-Lew
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