Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Jahre Anniversary
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:25:57 -0600

I have been hanging around the Ebay for a few months looking for a Leica CL.
I keep running into Jahre editions that have convinced the seller that they
are worth MUCH more than a shooter. I suppose that the only real benefit
might be that, if a guy spent more to have that emblem on it, he might have
been into it as a status symbol and probably didn't use it as much as a
shooter.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John R.
> Fulton Jr.
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 10:58 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Jahre Anniversary
>
>
> Hi Jeffrey---
> Don't hold me to the years or prices (that's a great disclaimer, huh?).
> Around 1976 I bought a new black chrome M4.  I remember it being
> $550 to 600. Very soon after I purchased it, the same store (Mark's
> Photo in Grand Rapids, Mich.) got two new 50-Jahre M4s. They were
> consecutive serial numbers and I believe they were around. $650 each.
> I thought about buying them but that was a lot of money and what the
> heck I had a new M4. They were a bit more than the M4 but not
> significantly so. Fifty to a hundred dollars US, max.
> The only difference was the imprint, as I remember. Jahre is year in
> German. As in 50-year.
> Best,
> John Fulton
> Fort Worth
>
>
> >
> >Is there any significance whatsoever if a Leica body is a Jahre
> Anniversary
> >body? It seems to cause them to cost far more than other bodies
> of the same
> >model, but there does not seem to be any difference in their appearance
> >(other than a small emblem) or functionality.
> >
> >While I'm on the topic, what was the Jahre?
> >
> >Jeffery Smith
> >New Orleans, LA
> >
> >
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