Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/07

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Subject: [Leica] More than most 50/2's
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 13:32:39 -0800
References: <CB047E46.914A%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

There are strong rumours that their main business is something else and 
involves Eastern European countries.


On 2011-12-06, at 11:23 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:

> I wonder how they got hold of them. Did Leica close their museum and sell
> everything to these guys? Who on Earth would pay 36,000 for that lens?
> Some of these items they relist for YEARS and they never sell. No retailer
> makes money offering things at prices so high they never sell. I wonder
> what their REAL business is?
> 
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> On 12/7/11 1:51 AM, "Marty Deveney" <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> These guys have slowly been selling off items from the old Leitz
>> museum for years.
>> 
>> One thing you can be sure of is that this one was very carefully
>> assembled and kept.  It's probably the cleanest DR you'll ever see.
>> 
>> Of course, that doesn't mean I want it.
>> 
>> Marty
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
>> gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Oligarchs of the world, queue up! (-:
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Henning Wulff
>>> <henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/7t5m8ds
>>>> 
>>>> Henning Wulff
>>>> henningw at archiphoto.com
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>>>> 
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