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NIKON KIU

NIKON KIU

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Just sold by Westlicht Auction in Vienna:
280,000 Euros about $410,000
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http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/3-...017QQitemZ270184872930QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

I see that this got mentioned in a thread with no replies!!
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50059

What's wrong with you people? This is the hottest news in the Camera world, Mr. Barnack got a jolt in his grave :angel:

Kiu
 
Lovely Camera

Lovely Camera

Hi Kiu,
I have added a reply to "that other thread" so that all is fine here!😀
Do you find the camera to be beautiufl?
 
As far as I'm concerned, I don't mind a few bumps, scratches, brassing, etc. It adds character. But when there are peices missing-- like the top of the shutter speed dial, in this case-- it's less appealing.
 
crawdiddy said:
But when there are peices missing-- like the top of the shutter speed dial, in this case-- it's less appealing.
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Is it missing that? Or was that not part of this original production from these 21 pre-release cameras?
 
You're right, rogue_designer. I went to the ebay page, and it's not actually missing anything. You can see shutter speeds stamped onto the top of the dial, which is recessed below the rim of the dial.

still looks a bit weird, like something is missing, but I guss it's not.

OK, I'll say it's beautiful!

...but not $410k beautiful....
 
I don't see it as a beauty but I do look at it as a very Historical camera.
number 7 Leica ever made, first to have been exported.

How about this quote:
The factory record indicates delivery to New York for patent applies.
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Very historical camera indeed.

Kiu
 
Does Luigi make a case for that? And where do you hook up a strap? I hope he doesn't drop it when trying street photography for the first time.
 
I heard through some Leica collector circles that this camera was not 100% proven to be what it is, while a camera with the SAME number was featured in a Leica book like 25 years ago and it was a totally different camera.......

I few items in the past few years have gone through that auction house and various other grand auction houses only to be found months afterwards to be non authentic in their origin

Buyer beware
if it`s $1,000 or $50,000+ all "collectable" cameras no matter what make they are have to be researched and have a pretty soild history background, the "rarer they are" the higher the chance is that they are faked or modified etc. etc. (there`s been examples of ALL rare Leica`s made - Leica I, WW2 Military one`s, M3 and M2 in Black and Olive, 72`s, Betribskameras....etc. etc. It`s all been faked ever since camera collecting took off in the late 1960`s)

I heard that this one was an example of the camera that didn`t have a clear prior history - but either way you look at it, it DID make history, real or not and I think the auction houses have a special insurance coverage that covers them in case something turns up bogus, but sadly for the buyer there`s no return on items sold.....

Tom

PS: Vintage racecar collectors go through this problem as well.....while some restoration services have put cars together from original parts and from wrecks etc. and there`s a few 4 million $$$ dollar D-JAGUAR`S that have the SAME chassis number, no matter what people say about it/them
 
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CameraQuest said:
Most Expensive? Not even close.

At the LHSA meeting in Solms,
Leica exhibited the UR Leica.

Insured for a cool 2,000,000 Euros in 2006
probably more now.

Stephen
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Yeah....... that`s the camera of all Leica cameras the

UR Leica

I really don`t think they can even put a price on that one, it`s like Rolls Royce`s
Original "Silver Ghost" I think they said on a TV documentry it`s insured for 12 Million Pounds 🙂

I guess you could consider this camera the most expensive sold camera.....at auction

Tom
 
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CameraQuest said:
Most Expensive? Not even close.

At the LHSA meeting in Solms,
Leica exhibited the UR Leica.

Insured for a cool 2,000,000 Euros in 2006
probably more now.

Stephen
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That doesn't count Mr. Gandy🙂

That camera isn't for sale!!

We're talking sold cameras here....

Kiu

Kiu
 
NIKON KIU said:
That doesn't count Mr. Gandy🙂

That camera isn't for sale!!

We're talking sold cameras here....

Kiu

Kiu
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not 100% true.

the UR Leica sells every time there is a new owner of Leica Camera.
which means it sold last year, along with the rest of the company.

Stephen
 
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