Leica LTM Numbers on the inside of a IIIc?

Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
landsknechte

landsknechte

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Yesterday, I found myself looking at my IIIc from a slightly different angle. On the top of the cavity between the flange and the curtain, right next to the roller that couples the lens to the rangefinder, there are some numbers. Neatly scratched in with some sort of a sharp stylus, in what looks like a European handwriting (using the 1 that looks to Americans like a compressed 7).

32,
13

Anyone have any clue what that might mean?
 
landsknechte said:
Yesterday, I found myself looking at my IIIc from a slightly different angle. On the top of the cavity between the flange and the curtain, right next to the roller that couples the lens to the rangefinder, there are some numbers. Neatly scratched in with some sort of a sharp stylus, in what looks like a European handwriting (using the 1 that looks to Americans like a compressed 7).

32,
13

Anyone have any clue what that might mean?
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They are the employee numbers or stations of each person who put together different pieces of the camera in the production line :)

My "Half Race" #3974xx is all torn down now and the doctor told me there`s little two digit numbers all over the inside of the camera :D

Tom
 
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So far, I have found 14 of these numbers in Tom's camera: 1, 5, 7, 14, 28, .... I have found similar numbers in my own cameras and usually, the same number is in the same location among cameras. Be another point of interest to have names to go with them....
 
DrLeoB said:
So far, I have found 14 of these numbers in Tom's camera: 1, 5, 7, 14, 28, .... I have found similar numbers in my own cameras and usually, the same number is in the same location among cameras. Be another point of interest to have names to go with them....
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Sounds like a job for the Leica Detectives!

Maybe the Leitz workers were smuggling out top secret information in a form of numbers code you could get by tearing down your Leica after you bought it at
Leitz NYC?........(JUST KIDDING!) ;)

Thanks for all the hard work Leo!

Tom
 
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