Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leitz BIDOX Binoculars
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:08:23 -0500

"What, these old crappers? Worth something? Maybe to the opera freak who
owned them. But don't worry, I'll give you $50 for the box." ;-)

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James
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Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:24 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Leitz BIDOX Binoculars


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!

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