Ever wonder about your Leica M pedigree?

here is the sum of what I know about my M2:

it was made in 1958 and it's most perfect thing Ive ever owned.

with all of my other cameras combined, there has been one time when I honestly took more pictures than I really intended too. with the Leica, it happens more often than not, which leads me to believe that the person who owned it before me must have used it a whole lot. I doubt KEH releases information about where they got cameras from, although I sure would like to know.
 
This is about my Leica IIIf RD ST, and not an actual M camera.

I purchased it when the Guernsey auction house was liquidating the Jack Naylor photo collection.

My Leica IIIf RD/ST (with Elmar 50mm f/3.5) was owned by some guy named Leopold Godowsky Jr.

I think he invented Kodachrome, or something like that.
 
In 2009 I bought a 1949 Leica Iiic in Vancouver BC. I found the original receipt and a business card of the first owner tucked into the pocket of the leather every ready case it came with. All good.. the funny thing was the original owner lived in the same village near Newbury, Berkshire (U.K.) where I grew up! Its a small world.
 
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