kingscoins83 Posted September 3, 2012 Share #1 Posted September 3, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello everyone. I'm new here and the reason that I've joined your community is to try to find out more about a cap that I've found in a box that belonged to my grandfather. So, as the title says it's about an aluminum cap which says Leitz and has the diameter of 54mm. I've attached 2 pictures so you can see better four yourself. Does anyone have any idea from where this cap could be? All comments are welcomed. Thank you very much in advanced. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 Hi kingscoins83, Take a look here Leitz 54mm aluminium cap. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Michael Geschlecht Posted September 4, 2012 Share #2 Posted September 4, 2012 Hello kingscoins83, Welcome to the Forum. What you have looks like a lens cap w/ the purple felt liner (to hold the lens securely) intact. Could you please measure the inside diameter of the metal portion. This will better allow us to determine which lens it is for. Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share #3 Posted September 4, 2012 Thank you for your response. The interior, if I've measured it correctly, is 53 mm and not 54 mm as I said in the previous post. Also the exterior diameter is 56 mm if it helps at something. I'm puzzled by the engraving, I found on the internet a lot of caps that say Leica but none that says Leitz. Best wishes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giordano Posted September 4, 2012 Share #4 Posted September 4, 2012 Leica cameras were originally and for many years made by the company Ernst Leitz GmbH. The size, "Leitz" branding and - enamelled? - finish on your lens cap make me suspect it might have been made for something other than a camera: perhaps a slide projector? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share #5 Posted September 5, 2012 Thank you for your response. You may be right, I also thought at the possibility that it could be from another product other than a camera or lenses. This was due to the fact that I could not find a single picture on the internet that resembles the ones that I've posted. Actually I found some that look alike but say Leica instead of Leitz. But unfortunately not knowing well the history of Leica/Leitz I can not say anything. This is one of the reasons that I've joined your forum, to ask people that have seen and know the Leica/Leitz products. Best wishes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giordano Posted September 5, 2012 Share #6 Posted September 5, 2012 It may be worth re-posting your question in the Leica Collectors & Historica subforum, which is where the real experts hang out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share #7 Posted September 6, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you for your sugestion, I will do that. Best wishes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share #8 Posted September 6, 2012 Hello everyone. I've joined your community trying to find out more about a cap that I've found in a box that belonged to my grandfather. I've already posted a thread under "other Leica products", here, but the users suggested me to post one here as well. So it's a cap that, if I've measured it correctly, is 53 mm. Also the exterior diameter is 56 mm if it helps at something. I'm puzzled by the engraving, I found on the internet a lot of caps that say Leica but none that says Leitz. Any comments are welcomed. Thank you in advance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 6, 2012 Share #9 Posted September 6, 2012 Leitz and Leica are different names for the same company (more or less;00 which changed in the mid-eighties. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share #10 Posted September 7, 2012 Thank you for your response. So it's a pre eighties cap, right? Can you tell me if it is from lenses, a body cap or from other products? Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted September 7, 2012 Share #11 Posted September 7, 2012 To build on Jaap's reply "Leica" is an abbreviated form of "Leitz Camera" Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
someonenameddavid Posted September 7, 2012 Share #12 Posted September 7, 2012 Of course Leitz makes other optical equipment so it might be from a spotting scope or an industrial measuring device or surveying instrument.... are you looking for your relatives old camera that could be "worth a fortune"???? David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 7, 2012 Share #13 Posted September 7, 2012 I looked at the photo you posted in the other section : ok, it's a lens cap, probably from '50s/'60s... but I don't remember to have ever seen such a cap on lenses for Leica cameras... usually they were not so "flat surface" ... and the diameter, too, is someway strange... just as a speculation... it could be the cap for the lens of a slide projector... Have you maybe found other devices that could be related with ? <edit : in the meantime, the above post arrived : other good possibilities, indeed > Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 8, 2012 Share #14 Posted September 8, 2012 Actually it is the lens cap of the Hector projection lens used on the Prado 150 and 250 projectors. (Mar-01-12 14:57:00) #160939150: projecteur prado 250 ernst leitz gmbh wetzal hector [85 EUR] - Delcampe.net Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 8, 2012 Share #15 Posted September 8, 2012 Answered here: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/other-leica-products/253620-leitz-54mm-aluminium-cap.html#post2173437 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share #16 Posted September 8, 2012 Thank you very much for elucidating my "enigma". Now comes the million dollar question. Does it worth anything? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share #17 Posted September 8, 2012 Thank you very much for all your responses. It was a pleasure talking to you. Best wishes to all of you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 8, 2012 Share #18 Posted September 8, 2012 Please see here: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-collectors-historica/78771-inherited-leica-trying-find-valuation.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
someonenameddavid Posted September 8, 2012 Share #19 Posted September 8, 2012 Thank you very much for all your responses. It was a pleasure talking to you. Best wishes to all of you. Well at least you can be proud of it (note to nonBritish-English speakers: proud-of-it sounds like Pradovit which is the name for the range of Leitz projectors and so, in pointing out the joke, it is no longer funny.....) David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingscoins83 Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share #20 Posted September 9, 2012 ) nice british humor sample. All the best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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