Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Serial Numbers
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 20:13:43 -0400

At 08:03 PM 6/5/98 -0500, Bielecki wrote:
>
>But what does the "316" in the June 1939 batch run mean?  As another
>example, my 1954 M-3 has a serial number of 704088.  I take it that the
>"4,088" figure is the actual production number, but what does the "70" mean?
>Likewise for my 50mm Summicron with a number of 1234208.  All those numbers
>must mean something.

"704088" means that yours is the 704,088th Leica camera made and
serial-numbered.  Period.  There is no other significance to the numbers.
They begin at 1, and have run to whatever they are today.  There are two
number sequences, one for cameras, the other for lenses.

Marc


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