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My wife and I were in an antique shop a few years ago and I saw what appeared to be a camera case under a counter. I asked the owner to see it and he pulled a Leica case out with a $1,200 price tag. I opened the case and a very clean M2 and 50 2.8 elmar was in it. I said I thought this was a little high in price and he stated there were other items. He pulled a large hard case from under the counter and opened it. It ontained seven or eight Leitz lenses and one Zeiss LTM including a mint 8 element 35 summicron, mint elmarit 90 and mint 135 elmar plus many very nice lenses. There was a visoflex 1 with two tops, bellows, cables adapters, filters, MR-4 meter, Viso 2 leitz tripod and two ball heads and many more items. There was a couple thousand dollars in adapters and focusing mounts alone. Then he pulled a mint IIIG and 50 summicron out and said he would take $500 for the IIIG and lens. I nearly broke my arm getting my check book out. He also had a III that was a disaster that he was asking $500 for but I passed on that one. I kept the MR-4 and M2 plus a couple of lenses and sold the rest. I later sold the lenses but in all I make a cool chunk of cash plus kept the M2 and MR-4 meter.