You don't get this opportunity very often.

[greyelm]

The all in one Barnack kit.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leica-111-35mm-Camera-set-in-a-Wallace-Heaton-leather-case-2-75-kg-Med-format-/321752270314?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4ae9ee05ea

 

[lynnb]

what a yummy looking kit!

 

[Luddite Frank]

Nice to see it being offered intact...

 

[zauhar]

What a beautiful kit.

Although I suspect the camera doesn't work well after (probably) sitting in that nice box for a long time...

Randy

 

[Roger Hicks]

Nice to see it being offered intact...

Dear Frank,

What does "intact" mean?

I put together similar outfits of fairly unremarkable Leica kit in the 1970s, even in proper Leica cases, and with Leica hoods (not all of these are). At the price this looks good, and I'm more or less happy to see what's on offer: but quite honestly it is not an especially unusual opportunity.

Cheers,

R.

 

[David Hughes]

Hmmmm...

Or even.

Regards, David

 

[Luddite Frank]

Dear Frank,

What does "intact" mean?

I put together similar outfits of fairly unremarkable Leica kit in the 1970s, even in proper Leica cases, and with Leica hoods (not all of these are). At the price this looks good, and I'm more or less happy to see what's on offer: but quite honestly it is not an especially unusual opportunity.

Cheers,

R.

Roger,

You make a valid case that this might not be someone's original kit, recently exhumed from a trunk or cupboard, but the amateur historian in me likes finding a "time capsule" from another era.

Perhaps I don't know where to look, or "what to look for", but most of the LTM stuff I seem to run-across is being offered a la carte...

Unfortunately for me, all the brick and mortar camera / photo stores in my region are long gone... so the Internet is about the only marketplace I run across this sort of stuff.

And, admittedly, I'm new to the Leica club, getting my first example in 2007.

I did get to handle some screw-mount Leicas on a high-school visit to the US Senate's photo-lab in the early 1980's... was quite taken with the strange German camera, and that odd lens with the funky hexagonal aperture ( must have been a Summar )... I was probably "hooked" then, but it took another 20+ years to be able to afford them...

Regards,

LF

 

[FrankS]

It's uncommon to see an intact collection sold like this on ebay, because most know that splitting it up and selling it as individual pieces brings in more money.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Roger,

You make a valid case that this might not be someone's original kit, recently exhumed from a trunk or cupboard, but the amateur historian in me likes finding a "time capsule" from another era.

Perhaps I don't know where to look, or "what to look for", but most of the LTM stuff I seem to run-across is being offered a la carte...

Unfortunately for me, all the brick and mortar camera / photo stores in my region are long gone... so the Internet is about the only marketplace I run across this sort of stuff.

And, admittedly, I'm new to the Leica club, getting my first example in 2007.

I did get to handle some screw-mount Leicas on a high-school visit to the US Senate's photo-lab in the early 1980's... was quite taken with the strange German camera, and that odd lens with the funky hexagonal aperture ( must have been a Summar )... I was probably "hooked" then, but it took another 20+ years to be able to afford them...

Regards,

LF

Dear Frank,

Highlight: sure. And once you have the case and the basic camera, it's better that way. You can then (if you wish) build your outfit the way people always have: buying what you can afford, when you find it. Because I've built similar kits (more than once) I just can't see it as a "time capsule". It's entirely possible that it is, but I can't help feeling that around 80 years on, it's much likelier to be the sort of kit I put together in the 70s. There's nothing unusual there: just standard, ordinary lenses where the apparent completeness of the outfit is more important than what's in it.

I was much more excited when maybe 30 years ago I found a (much rarer) Foca kit with 28-35-50-90-135 lenses in a Foca case with Foca finder, hoods and filters. That almost certainly was a "time capsule". But just having "Leitz" written on it doesn't do much for me any more: it would not take long to replicate this kit.

Cheers,

R.

 

[iphoenix]

I feel David's Model A as shown has all the qualifications of a time capsule.

- The first model Leica
- A matching rangefinder
- A presumably correct cassette
- And a matching case (which you could almost say is of a capsule in shape)

Except for film of the era, all the requirements of a user of the earliest Leica.

 

[philipus]

A very nice set, I think, which sold for a very decent price, too.

My camera was originally a I from 1931 but was, according to Leica, upgraded to a II in the early 1950s. In the case were a 9cm Elmar and a 13,5cm Hektor from 1934 and 1938 and a Summitar and a 2,8cm Hektor, both from 1950. So possibly mine's an intact set. Then again I don't mind if it isn't. Still works perfectly (of course) (the TUVOO and the Summilux I added myself).

br
Philip