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Well... is undoubtly one of the rarest Leicas : never officially announced, few items were made in the 825.0xx range : I remember that one was sold at an auction, some years ago, for around 6-7000 US$; 55.000 A$ seems to me an exaggerate request, but so better for the seller if he cashes in such a sum; of course, originality has to be verified : I think that it has never been faked by "usual fake manufacturers", but for a good lab, starting from an original IIIG it could be not too difficult to arrange a "II G", with right s/n and no long times and selftimer.

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Hi, I have seen the IIg on ebay, The Leica museum has 825001 and 825015 sold at auction. It sure fits nicely into the proper serial number sequence, quite a find if it is!

 

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JS

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Hi, I have seen the IIg on ebay, The Leica museum has 825001 and 825015 sold at auction. It sure fits nicely into the proper serial number sequence, quite a find if it is!

 

regards

JS

 

The camera n.825001 was confirmed to be a Leica IIIG originally delivered to US and sold.

Was auctioned in june 2008- lot53 by Westlicht (price-Euro 12.000).

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Hi again, I'm confused, whats in the Leica Museum then?

 

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JS

 

JS, also you were right.

The explanation is this: actually there was in the Leitz Museum ( marked as n.2238 in the Museum list ) the Leica IlG prototype, the only original IIG camera known of which we can be 100% certain: also first serial number of "G"-type cameras - basically a Illg without selftimer and slowspeeds - SAME n.825001 (Lager Vol. I, p 165) of the Leica IIIG sold by Westlicht.

The Leica IIG camera n.825001 was also published in the " PROTOTYP LEICA" book von Lars Netopil.

The Leica IIG n.825001 was no longer in the Leitz Museum because it was sold together with a number of TOP Museum items to Mr. Surat Osathanugrah (one of the most important collectors in the world), now passed away (I remember that the camera was on sale years ago, they spoke of a large sum of money but I do not remember how much now).

The serial number was obviously a double of the Leica IIIG sold in US.

However, the one in the Museum was the only documented IIG with strong provenience.

Of the others not much is known for sure.

 

best regards.

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Thank you for the information,

 

A fascinating and intriguing story...was the duplication of full serial numbers somewhat unusual? I thought that prototypes had shorter or more obvious non-production number sequences.

 

best regards

 

JS

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Thank you for the information,

 

A fascinating and intriguing story...was the duplication of full serial numbers somewhat unusual? I thought that prototypes had shorter or more obvious non-production number sequences.

 

best regards

 

JS

 

Yes, it was very unusual... and when it happened they used to put an asterisk after the s/n... and as you say prototypes had normally "out of range" numbers (Van Hasbroeck displays a IIIG "Betriebsk N. 509")... odd story indeed. To complicate further, it is also reported that a US dealer asked for, and obtained from Leitz, a conversion service from IG to IIG (notice, IIG not IIIG :confused: ... and IG HAD the slow times...) : maybe some cameras from this strange operation do exist... but IG hadn't numbers in the 825.0xxx.... :confused:

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It's back! And looking at the photos it's just beautiful. :)

 

BIN $135,000 AUD! and according to the listing he's had 7 offers.

 

At that sort of money I'd want to see it in real life before making an offer. (I could be in Melbourne in about 9 hours by car :p)

 

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It reminds me the story of the Leica 244:D

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