Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]$B$=$N4V$K$3$N%a!<%k$G$b(J($BE>Aw$G$9(J)ML$B$h$j!"(JMP$B4X78!#(J $BJ8Cf$N(Jjim$B$OC/$@$+!"$*$o$+$j$G$9$M(J(^_^) Leikon35 wrote: > > 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 >> - -- Jun Nakajima Magicalights Studio Corporation. http://www.magicalights.co.jp/ SiliconGraphics O2 / NeXT_Rhapsody