Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]About 6 years ago, a well known West Coast millionaire & Leica collector, asked me to find him a Mint Leica MP & that he would pay $10,000 for it. I laughed and said "Jim, there are no Mint MPs, practically all 350 of them went to professionals that put them to heavy use." About a year later at the same Pasadena Convention Center Camera Show, Jim showed up and handed me a Mint black MP that he had recently purchased. I examined it very carefully & concurred with him that it indeed had all the attributes of being authentic. When I returned home & looked up the s/n of that black MP - I found that it had been manufactured in chrome, not black. Even today I am still puzzled by that anomaly. Marvin ====================================================== In a message dated 98-01-21 06:19:41 EST, you write: << Of course they were all Russian copies, but someone obviously has started producing top plates for these Zorkys and FEDs. These cameras were fakes, and they made me laugh, but what do we say about all these "mint" black M-bodies, that sooner or later will turn up at different auctions? I will stubbornly refuse to sell my M4 to these people. I will go on using >>