Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vince - With the exception of a few die-hards like myself, that like to use 60 year old Leicas like your IIIb - the rest of them go into collections & are probably never used, much like a 60 year old automobile. The value of collectibles are based usually on condition and rarity. Your camera is rated as a 4 on a scale of 1- 9 which means that it wasn't as common a 1 but certainly not rare, with 38,000 made from 1938 to 1945. Depending on condition, your outfit would retail for between $500 & $1100 and a dealer would pay you about 60% of that. If it has any authentic military engravings, "Luftwafen Eigentum, Heer or W.H". it could then easily be worth about $3,000 to $8,000. It would be comparable to owning the BMW driven by Erwin Rommel, motorcycle not auto. Marvin Moss