Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> <<My > friends even told me that Leica doesn't seal the cameras and lenses at > all. I am not 100% sure about this but the lenses I purchsed in US, > Taiwan, and Japan, all of them don't come in a sealed bag. >> > > Yes, you are correct, Leica doesn't "seal" anything in a box. > > Neither the box or the bag inside come sealed closed. Really that is a > misnomer for something that is "unused in box" I suppose. Ah, this is true for current products, but back in the old days, boxes were wrapped in paper which had a sticker to seal it. It's entirely possible that the seal may be of the importer/distributor. Go to Katsumido in Ginza, Tokyo, and you can see a couple of them.