Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Recent Leica stuff that I have bought has come shrink wrapped in a Leica insignia ladden plastic wrap. I'm not sure if this was applied in Germany or by Kindermann. Dan C. At 09:28 AM 04-07-00 -0700, you wrote: >> <<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. > > > >