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Fellow Leicaphiles: it's been good knowing you: I stopped at an estate sale on the way home today. Multiple Leica bits... I got a Visoflex III with the 65 3.5 Canada Elmar for $150, a NOOKY HESUM in box, a bellows reproducing thing and a Simlar 5cm f3.5 elmar copy and a stereo brownie and an old german rollfilm slr with a tessar lens and other bits and bobs... So now to talk to the wife.....

 

It's cheaper than alcoholism

 

David

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Fellow Leicaphiles: it's been good knowing you: I stopped at an estate sale on the way home today. Multiple Leica bits... I got a Visoflex III with the 65 3.5 Canada Elmar for $150, a NOOKY HESUM in box, a bellows reproducing thing and a Simlar 5cm f3.5 elmar copy and a stereo brownie and an old german rollfilm slr with a tessar lens and other bits and bobs... So now to talk to the wife.....

 

It's cheaper than alcoholism

 

David

 

 

....David, David, David - you need to show up with a peace offering. You simply *cannot* turn up empty-handed.

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The problem is that the sale is not yet over and tomorrow they will have a 50mm f 2.8 collapsible elmar-., a visoflex II and a PLOOT and other bits and Bobs... Screw mount 200 telyt.... And that's noy including the large format stuff.... Leitz reloadable cassettes for $12 screw mount adapters for 15....

 

David

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David, you make me jealous, wishing that sale was near me.... When things get sold for such nice prices you should perhaps pick up the Telyt 200. You can use it with the Visoflex, and also the lens head can be used for macro.

Good luck!

Lex

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So I am going back tomorrow and decide whether I want to buy the 50mm f/2.8 Elmar-M and the screw mount series telyt and the M-135 hektor there are other bits and bobs filters and the moveable screen thingy for close ups there are some large format lenses including a dagor which I might buy...

 

-"I got plenty o' nuttin' and nuttin,s plenty fo' me"

 

David

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So I am going back tomorrow and decide whether I want to buy the 50mm f/2.8 Elmar-M and the screw mount series telyt and the M-135 hektor there are other bits and bobs filters and the moveable screen thingy for close ups there are some large format lenses including a dagor which I might buy...

 

-"I got plenty o' nuttin' and nuttin,s plenty fo' me"

 

David

 

so the **** hit the fan... i have a NOOKY-HESUM but not much else......

If I sold the visoflex and 14641K and canadian Elmar 65 f3.5 at a profit I might redeem myself.

 

David

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Where do you guys find those estate sales... i have NEVER seen or heard of one except on forums... Closest i have been too was a auction for the stuff of some lonely dead rich guy. The stuff went for thousands... tens of thousands... :rolleyes:

 

I'm in Montreal...

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Where do you guys find those estate sales... i have NEVER seen or heard of one except on forums... Closest i have been too was a auction for the stuff of some lonely dead rich guy. The stuff went for thousands... tens of thousands... :rolleyes:

 

I'm in Montreal...

 

Tulsa Oklahoma... I think that the odds are better here because Tulsa enjoyed a post war economic boom and the oil and aerospace industries attracted men who were high paid engineers and particular about the quality of the equipment they used. Some also were in Europe and Japan when the dollar was almighty. This year I have picked up a Contax IIa color dial with immaculate f1.5 Sonnar, a miranda sensorex in near mint condition and the visoflex.

 

But I am texting from the long, dark night of the soul.

 

David

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Where do you guys find those estate sales... i have NEVER seen or heard of one except on forums... Closest i have been too was a auction for the stuff of some lonely dead rich guy. The stuff went for thousands... tens of thousands... :rolleyes:

 

I'm in Montreal...

Do you have "Garage Sales" in Montreal? In Australia they are held normally on a Saturday morning (sometimes Sunday) at residential homes and are sometimes run by the families of deceased relations, to sell off their unwanted possessions. "Car Boot Sales" are another potential source. Check your local newspaper. ;)

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Well into the second day of wandering in the wilderness.

I also got some small trade type magazine literature which had been mailed to the original owner directly from Wetzlar. Several brochures including the small Leica Chronicle... In Ok condition and includes one apparently _never_opened_ ooooOOOOoooo.

Wondering if anyone out there would like them. No cost but I will only mail them in the US. If you decide they are fun you could mail back some photo trinket of your estimated equal value.

 

David

(The brochures are around the introduction of M6 and R4)

And if anyone has bits of a Mentor camera they don't want, I have the other bits.

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