Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On May 29, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Summicron1@aol.com wrote: > i know a guy in salt lake city who swapped a carton of cigarettes for > a leica > after the war My mother paid a freighter captain $50, I think, for a Leica I shortly after the end of the War. He had bought it from a destitute refugee, but I don't know for how much. Fifty dollars was a good bit in the late '40s, but she used that camera well into the '70s, and it still works today! --Eric Ladner