Amelia Earharts Leica for Sale on eBay

[Chuffed Cheese]

Well, well, well. Looks like quite the find here, lol. I'm sure some fun discussion can be had.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amelia-E...457873?hash=item3d5c5ac611:g:bNgAAOSweBFapAOe

 

[Erik van Straten]

I wonder why she didn't take it with her on her flight around the world.

Erik.

 

[michaelwj]

When I want things to end up in museums I usually put them on eBay for £50,000 too. I would never contact a museum or two.

 

[Dralowid]

I wish it were true and it may very well be true but provenance such as this is so hard to prove.

At that price provenance would have to be 100% concrete.

Like the idea though...fiddly to load? Surely our Amelia would be made of sterner stuff!

 

[jsrockit]

I wonder why she didn't take it with her on her flight around the world.

Erik.

Haha, good one. Maybe she had many Leicas ... like many of us here past and present.

 

[Chuffed Cheese]

I wonder why she didn't take it with her on her flight around the world.

Erik.

Cuz she knew how it would end up. Wanted it to be kept in safe hands, lol.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I wonder why she didn't take it with her on her flight around the world.

Erik.

It probably needed a CLA.

 

[Chuffed Cheese]

An interesting follow-up. Weird too.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/...t_s_camera_to_go_under_the_hammer_in_Glasgow/

I guess it didn't sell at the auction?

 

[mconnealy]

Deco Beauty

 

[Beemermark]

At least the price is right-🙂

 

[Sumarongi]

At least the price is right-🙂

In 2017, McTear's Auctioneers *expected to reach between £10,000 and £15,000*, and didn't succeed, now Mr Wullie Macdonald's grandson Ian thinks he'll get £ 50,000... 😀

 

[capitalK]

The story could be genuine, but I'm guessing grampa told a whopper.

 

[Montag006]

I wonder why she didn't take it with her on her flight around the world.

Erik.

Subjects like this and Erik's comment make me say
"I love this website and the people on here." :angel:

 

[Emile de Leon]

They should dna test..or fingerprint it..lol..

 

[giganova]

Shouldn't Amelia Earharts' Leica look like this?

 

[Muggins]

A CLA will sort that!
(from the Hindenburg?)

The Kodak Duo 620 is pretty but, in my limited experience, the Kodak Anastigmat lens is a bit of a contrast-free zone. Oddly, I have only ever seen two of these, and when I saw the second I had the first in my pocket with a film in!
Art-deco Kodak Duo-620 by gray1720, on Flickr

Adrian

 

[Huss]

In related news, I am selling an Olympus Stylus owned by Jesus.

(I bought it from him at the Pasadena City College flea market).

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

I guess it WAS fiddly to load, trying to stuff an IXMOO in there!

 

[xayraa33]

In related news, I am selling an Olympus Stylus owned by Jesus.

(I bought it from him at the Pasadena City College flea market).

I like to own Picasso's Fed 2 camera.

That would take some fine Cubist portraits in my opinion, may be even a few Blue Period ones too.

 

[Huss]

I wonder why she didn't take it with her on her flight around the world.

Erik.

It was at Leica NJ "waiting for parts".