Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/21

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Subject: [Leica] How are the serial numbers structured?
From: "Andrew M. Moore" <dmm@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:05:56 -0400
 
How are the Leica serial numbers structured?
The obvious answer is "just add one"!  But that's not what I mean.

Does each Leica lens "model" have its own set of serial numbers, or are
the numbers truly unique amongst *all* the lenses (and all focal
lengths, all generations, etc.) that Leica has ever produced?  Asked
another way, can there be a 50/2 Summicron-M with #3701234 and also a
35/2 with the same number?

And how about the bodies -- do bodies and lenses also share (or not) the
same pool of numbers?

Has this numbering scheme changed at any point in Leica's history?

Andrew