Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens signatures, old and new
From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:32:18 -0400

Yeah but the '60s Martins were nowhere near as good as the older ones. The
factory, with all of it's aged wood burned down, I think in '66, and things
were never the same thereafter.

Gilbert Plantinga (with a '36 D'Angelico! I play it every day.)

on 10/23/00 4:37 PM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:

> So will I...But if given a choice....
> 
> Johnny Deadman wrote:
> 
>> on 23/10/00 3:18 pm, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:
>> 
>>> Give me a 1966 Martin D28 over its "new" clone any day...
>> 
>> Actually, if you're giving them away, I'll have either.
>> 
>> --
>> Johnny Deadman
>> 
>> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
> 
>