Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Moss / Pahlen / top plates
From: Jun Nakajima <jun@magicalights.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:02:09 +0900

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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 >>

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