Harry Lime
Practitioner
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Currently being auctioned at Westlicht
0-series Leica No. 107 (1923)
This is the 7th camera of the Leica 0-series. Only approx. 21 of these cameras were produced to test the market in 1923, 2 years before the commercial introduction of the Leica A. The camera is in excellent and fully working condition, all parts including the paintwork are original, only the folding finder has been replaced by the later Galilean finder as usual. It is the only camera known with "Germany" engraving on the top plate. The factory record indicates delivery to New York for patent applies. This means that this camera is not only one of the major rarities existing, it is also the first Leica being exported. This is the second 0-series Leica ever being offered in a public auction and the unique chance to buy the most important collectable Leica camera.
Estimate: 280.000-320.000 Euro
Starting price: 140.000 Euro
Currently being auctioned at Westlicht
0-series Leica No. 107 (1923)
This is the 7th camera of the Leica 0-series. Only approx. 21 of these cameras were produced to test the market in 1923, 2 years before the commercial introduction of the Leica A. The camera is in excellent and fully working condition, all parts including the paintwork are original, only the folding finder has been replaced by the later Galilean finder as usual. It is the only camera known with "Germany" engraving on the top plate. The factory record indicates delivery to New York for patent applies. This means that this camera is not only one of the major rarities existing, it is also the first Leica being exported. This is the second 0-series Leica ever being offered in a public auction and the unique chance to buy the most important collectable Leica camera.
Estimate: 280.000-320.000 Euro
Starting price: 140.000 Euro
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rolleistef
Well-known
it usually goes for more than a thousand euro doesn't it?
rolleistef
Well-known
oh gosh, it's 140 000 euro and not 140, 00 euros! eek...
Harry Lime
Practitioner
Yep, this is the real deal. Not the dummy replica they used to build at Leica as part of their training course.
The only one of it's kind and only the second null-series to ever be auctioned.
The only one of it's kind and only the second null-series to ever be auctioned.