Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Commemorative issue CL?
From: LEICAMAN56@aol.com
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:59:45 EDT
 
Are you sure you're talking about a commemorative CL for the 72 Olympics?  
The only camera made for the 72 Olympics was the Leicaflex SL.  1000 were 
made with the Olympic rings and individual numbers.  200 were made with the 
Olympic rings only.  BTW, camera #13 was reserved for the unluckiest athlete 
of the games.  This was the so called "Peschvogel" camera.  In the aftermath 
of the massacre, this whole PR stunt was quietly dropped.

The CL began production in 1973, one year after the Munich Olympics.

Bill Rosauer