Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When you bought a camera overseas and brought it through US customs, you were required to sign something promising to obliterate the name. Same is true if you mail ordered - customs would detain it until you paid the duty and signed the pledge. Don't ask me why. I know this was true back in the 70's, when two friends mail ordered cameras directly from Japan. One guy who bought a Konica Autoreflex had a plate engraved with his initials to cover it up, and the other, who bought an OM-2, ignored it, and figured no one would ever follow up to check. I have a feeling most probably simply did not comply, but this was probably a Big Brother fearing man who lived up to his word. Tom Schofield > > Please, someone tell me why anyone who would own one of these jewels would > > do this: > > http://www.GoodPhotos.com/IIIcTopPlate.jpg > > Not being a LTM maven, let me ask a perhaps foolish question - is that > where any Nazi related engraving might have been? If so, I can easily > understand why someone would have done that...Assuming that they wanted > the camera to use. > > B. D.