Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sometimes, it helps to be a detail freak. A friend, who handles estates, just brought by a box of old photo gear to have me evaluate the stuff. Most of it wasn't too hard -- Brownies and Polaroids and the like. But, at the bottom of the box, there was a pair of anonymous 6x30 binoculars in a really nifty brown plastic hard case. I note that they are marked, "Dienstglass 6x30 beh". Dredging the dusty closets of my tired old data banks, I recalled that, during World War II, Germany used three-letter codes to indicate the place of manufacture on a lot of military items. I couldn't recall right off the bat exactly WHICH factory "beh" was, but I knew I had a list of these codes and I was fairly certain that "beh" was Leitz. And so it was. This was one of Leitz' more successful designs, for that matter -- in production from 1927 until 1962. And the case is a find -- hard plastic with leather hinge straps. I've never seen the like -- but it resembles the leather case exactly. I also got a Voigtlander Bergheil out of the deal. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html