Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - ------ =_NextPart_001_01BE965A.065C9360 Content-Type: text/plain Was I correctly informed that this was one of the few Leica bodies NOT to carry a serial number? Buzz Hausner > The Queen was presented with her M6 by Uli Hintner, the present M.D. of > Leica UK. He > spent a pleasant half hour with her talking about the camera and > photography, he > said she was very knowledgable on the subject. I suppose that means 'more > than you'd > expect a queen to be'! It was presented on the occassion of her 60th > birthday (when > there were some British postage stamps issued showing her with her M3) and > it was > this that triggered the thought that perhaps she might appreciate a newer > camera as > a birthday present. Of course it was specially engraved for her and > packaged in a > little more than the, admittedly, award winning card packaging in use now. > Uli recalls it as one of the highlights of his Leica carreer in an > interview from > the forthcoming 'Leica Postal Portfolio News' (issue 86) hitting your > desks in June! > > Jem > - ------ =_NextPart_001_01BE965A.065C9360 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.0.1460.9"> <TITLE>RE: [Leica] PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <UL> <P><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Book Antiqua">Was I = correctly informed that this was one of the few Leica bodies NOT to = carry a serial number?</FONT> </P> <P> <FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" = SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Book Antiqua">Buzz Hausner</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Book = Antiqua"></FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">The Queen was = presented with her M6 by Uli Hintner, the present M.D. of Leica UK. = He</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">spent a pleasant = half hour with her talking about the camera and photography, he</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">said she was very = knowledgable on the subject. I suppose that means 'more than = you'd</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">expect a queen to = be'! It was presented on the occassion of her 60th birthday = (when</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">there were some = British postage stamps issued showing her with her M3) and it = was</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">this that triggered = the thought that perhaps she might appreciate a newer camera as</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">a birthday present. = Of course it was specially engraved for her and packaged in a</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">little more than = the, admittedly, award winning card packaging in use now.</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Uli recalls it as = one of the highlights of his Leica carreer in an interview from</FONT> <BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">the forthcoming = 'Leica Postal Portfolio News' (issue 86) hitting your desks in = June!</FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Jem</FONT> </P> </UL> </BODY> </HTML> - ------ =_NextPart_001_01BE965A.065C9360--