Very Early FED for Sale

According to google, it means hammer or gavel. Which is what you might want to use on your head if you woke up in the morning and found you had paid $3400 for a Russian camera. Plus shipping. :)
 
Steve M. said:
According to google, it means hammer or gavel. Which is what you might want to use on your head if you woke up in the morning and found you had paid $3400 for a Russian camera. Plus shipping. :)
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Hi,

Thanks but what baffled me was what that had to do with it...

Regards, David
 
Beautiful camera, so early that it does not need a cold shoe.

Those poor orphan children did a good job at the Felix Dzerzhinsky Labour Commune in Kharkov and got a much needed change from assembling Black & Decker electric drill copies.
 
I had one a few hundred later than this. It was a very, very well built camera. Sold it on Ebay and the highest bidder was in Kiev in the Ukraine.
 
Number was more than a few hundred away...

FED 001 by dralowid, on Flickr

With the values that early Feds achieve I wonder when Leica II's will be re-engineered into Feds?

Having said that the Fed collectors market seems to be much more knowledgable than those who are happy to fork out money for weird Leica fakes.

...and having said that I'd still be happy to pay for a Fed Siberia!
 
Lovely cameras, both!

According to the Sovietcams site a serial as low as the one in the OP would be a PEO 147 and would date from '34/'35. They go on to say;

"Although produced in appreciable quantities(*), less than 100 cameras are known to exist..."

* Sovietcams states approximately 3,200 were made.

From the same source it appears Dralowid's camera type - the first with the accessory shoe added - was produced in far fewer numbers. They estimate total production to have been somewhere around the 600 mark.

Pip.
 
Dralowid said:
I'd divide the asking price by five...or perhaps a wee bit more.
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I don't need it for free. I need cameras for picture taking.

But Boris the Seller might by better to copy our Toronto Leica seller and go from 3500 price to 350000 and remove BO. If you are looking for rich go big then. Best offer from rich is one dollar and only, BTW. :)
 
Dralowid said:
With the values that early Feds achieve I wonder when Leica II's will be re-engineered into Feds?

Having said that the Fed collectors market seems to be much more knowledgable than those who are happy to fork out money for weird Leica fakes.

...and having said that I'd still be happy to pay for a Fed Siberia!
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I have noticed that when searching for stuff, mostly seem to be selling out of eastarn europe and often they seem to get gaudy make overs as well but they must be selling as they keep doing it, I'm guessing its more the hipster kids than older collectors though.

Googled the Siberia, nice but not few hundred quid nice.
 
I got a copy of Dieter Walzholz' "The Soviet Copies of the Leica II" book for Christmas. FED sn 2608 is listed on page 9 in serial numbers found listing. He says the finish is galvanized while the "seller called finish hammertone". (The camera must have appeared on E-Bay previously.) Boris seems to have sold sn 2608 quite quickly.

I find these FED-1 cameras more interesting than the contemporary Leica II because they bare a fascinating glimpse into Soviet history. I think the wartime Leicas (1939 to 1945) are more interesting than the peacetime Leicas for the same reason.
 
I had a fairly early (toilet bowl) Fed 1 (PE0210 type B, 1937) that I sold a couple years ago on eBay. With the 50mm F2.0 lens, it only brought $240.
 
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