Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: the first IIIg
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Aug 17 10:15:15 2004

My parents were quite serious antique collectors, and, as an only child,
I spent allot of time with them on the hunt. As a young kid, an antique
dealer/cabinet maker who had become a personal friend of my father's
gave me a copy of the front page of the NY Herald announcing Lincoln's
assassination. He thought it was real, and I always thought it to be
real. Well, a few years back I discovered that that front page is best
known as the most fraudulently reproduced newspaper page in history. And
most copies that are extant were produced in around 1890. I also learned
that there is a way to tell the originals from the knockoffs - and I had
the knock-off. It's still worth a few bucks, but it's a far cry from
having the real thing. ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Dan C
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:09 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: the first IIIg 


I once saw such a book, but discovered it was a fake, so I didn't buy
it.

-dan c.

At 09:03 AM 17-08-04 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote:

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