Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re:Auctioning off the first production Leica M8
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Tue May 6 06:14:33 2008

I heard of two 1913-1983 units with the same "special serial number".

Rumor that the Midland number engraving machines fell into nefarious hands 
when Midland Leitz closed up.

Vick


>From: Stan Yoder <s.yoder@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Auctioning off the first production Leica M8
>Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 07:54:18 -0400
>
>I seem to recall someone here saying that the Solms assemblers just reached 
>into a bin of S/N-numbered shoes to put one on the body at hand. If so, the 
>true first M8 might have any number from the first batch of shoes. Unless, 
>of course, Solms made sure that shoe #3100000000000000 was used.
>
>Stan Yoder
>
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