Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] date of lens manufacture
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 10:15:28 -0400
 
At 08:51 AM 4/24/99 -0300, Peter Hanlon wrote:
>     I'm trying to find the date of manufacture for  an old screw mount
>Elmar lens, sn #147980. It's a nickel mount, marked in  meters, f3.5-18.   
> and the Leica  The first 60 Years by Rogliatti, but both begin lens
>numbers at 156001 circa  1933.Do you know of any other sources that go back
>further?Or can someone identify date?                                      


All of my tables are the same, beginning at 156,001 in 1933.  Leitz didn't
even routinely assign serial numbers below 100,000, and they are sporadic
from that number to 156,001.  

A guess for yours would be '31 or '32.

Marc

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