Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/31

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Subject: [Leica] Vintage Leitz hardcase...
From: wanderjan at gmail.com (Jan Decher)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:41:22 -0400

Marc:
This is a Leica outfit case not a "NRCase", rectangular, hard, olive drab
leather with lid opening away from the body (as any decent camera case lid
should).
The store keeper said "that's what collectors pay for these things..."
Jan
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From: Marc James Small <marcsmall at comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:18:27 -0400
At 06:03 PM 3/31/2009, Jan Decher wrote:
>I stopped by at my camera dealer here in Burlington and he had a small
>olive-drab Leitz hardcase in a glass case prized at US$599 !  It may be a
>German Bundeswehr model, I am not sure.  Do they really go for that much?

I would have asked.  I have a bunch of Leitz Never-Ready Cases but I've
never paid a dime for any of them:  folks just give them to me out of
frustration, I guess.  The IIIcK military cameras were supplied without a
case of any kind.  Perhaps this is a factory prototype of some sort?  Leitz
NRC's are normally cow-leather brown.
Marc
msmall at aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!


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