Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] Different Engravings on M4-P
From: "Robb Williamson ASLA" <rwilliamson@norrisdullea.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:24:00 -0700
 
John,

Thanks very much for explaining the differences to me.  I am fascinated by
the many differences of all the Leica products.

Robb


>>>>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:58:28 -0700
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Different Engravings on M4-P

There are two different types of engravings on the M4-P because there are
two different top plates for the M4-P. Most of the production used a brass
top plate but when the M6 was introduced they shared a common zinc composite
top plate. There were several different versions of engravings on the M4-2
but all use a brass top plate. There are far more of the brass M4-P cameras
but the zinc ones are not considered rare (yet). For a "light" introduction
to all this silliness try: "Identifying Leica Cameras" by Ghester Sartorius
but if you are really crazy for minutia then go for the excellent James
Lagar books.

>>>>John Collier