Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lew, The crescent shaped thingy is the give-away. Leica's used a roller. The painted Olympics stuff is also just a new version of the wartime really clean Leica's that continue to appear with engraved Luftwaffe or German army markings. If it were real it would be selling for more than 50K. One of the M3 beta cameras just sold for more than 60K last week. So a unique, pristine black paint III with engravings in museum condition that was actually used at the historic 1936 Olympics going for less than 10K? I'm thinking Russian. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 10/8/06, Lew <lew@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >