Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] charlie trentelman's 127mm/4.5 anastigmat
From: Thinkofcole at aol.com (Thinkofcole@aol.com)
Date: Sat Sep 4 06:33:28 2004
 
      
     Jim Lager's Vol. II of his Illustrated History on Leica lenses says on 
page 96 that Wollensak made the lens and Leica New York made the mount on 
the 
127/4.5 Velostigmat "as early as 1944'' The identical data is also printed 
in 
his earlier "Illustrated Guide,II."
      He said the "very early'' Wollensak 127s were not coated and were 
engraved "Leica 
Anastigmat. Later ones, he said, were coated and were engraved Velostigmat 
or 
Raptar. 
      He shows a pix of a 127mm/4.5 "Leica Anastigmat" lens engraved on the 
barrel "Leica New York made in USA" #439060, very close to Trentelman's lens 
number.
      There is no information in that volume on the number of Wollensaks 
produced. 
                   -- bob cole, Asheville, N.C. 28803 [my first attempt at 
posting.]