Leica LTM Most expensive Leica ever...UR Leica

Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
Does anyone know where HCB`s Black M3 is????????

That might bring some crazy money, if that would be sold 😀

.....a Leica III that was ex-Robert Capa sold like 15 years ago for like $7,000 *cheap huh?*

Tom
 
and then there was the special edition one off Leica M
which sold several years ago at auction
$700,000 or so if I recall correctly.

and then there was the famous Leica O which sold for $500,000 about ten years ago. unfortunately that turned out to be a fake, and settled in court.

Stephen
 
OK Ok Mr. Gandy, you win!
I was just going by the Auctioneer's claim:
Westlicht said:
On Saturday, the 17th of November 2007 the 12th WestLicht Photographica Auction ended with a sensation: the most spectacular lot of the auction, a 0-Series Leica No. 107 was sold for an unbelievable 336.000 Euros hammer price incl. premium – the highest sum ever achieved at an auction for a 35mm camera or a Leica.
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LeicaTom said:
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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Tom,
Adding the commisions, this camera did almost half a million Dollars!!

Do you believe the spooky claims coming outta Leica circles, or the price??

Kiu
 
Sold Again? Over a Million Dollars This time?

Sold Again? Over a Million Dollars This time?

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Well, this LOOKS like the same camera sold and mentioned in this thread back in 2007, except it brought like $1.6 Million dollars today at Westlicht.....????

Hmmm strange, odd? but it seems I see a few cameras come back and forth there, maybe the bidders don't back up their winning bids and the equipment ends up back at WL? or someone got tired of a $500,000+ camera sitting on their shelf? :/

Who Knows?

Tom
 
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