[Leica] Historical leica sighting - What was Orrin's Leica?

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

So, The Little Sister was published in 1949 and is set in that period.

The camera's expensive, so new(?), so what do we reckon IIc or IIIc and why? 
;-)

Peter

H. Ball Arche wrote:
> in Raymond Chandler's "The Little Sister", which I've just re-read after 
> 30 years. I'd completely forgotten about how her older brother's using a 
> Leica was central to the plot:
> 
> "He studies a lot and he has a very expensive camera he likes to snap 
> people with when they don't know. Sometimes it makes them mad. But Orrin 
> says people ought to see themselves as they really are."
> 
> "Let's hope it never happens to him, " I said. "what kind of camera is it?"
> 
> "One of those little cameras with a very fine lens. You can take snaps in 
> almost any kind of light. A Leica."
> 
> -and on from there.
> 
> 
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