Is this a prototype? Help please!

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4 hours ago, Anbaric said:

I'm curious about what you see when you look through their viewfinders. The ebay advert makes a claim about masking for long lenses, though the picture they show looks like prism separation, a fairly common problem with the M3:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/MHQAAOSw8fNkSpPq/s-l1600.jpg

Compare with:

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/leica-m3-viewfinder-repair-question.144420/

This is what I see through viewfinders. First is normal but second is dark..

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1 hour ago, 250swb said:

Well somebody made them, and doing it may have been entirely innocent at the time, but it is whoever is adding an identity and marketing them that’s the problem isn’t it? The hyperbole kicked off immediately with the word ‘prototype’ instead of ‘custom’ (I have no idea what the OP was told about the collection), it continued with ‘Swedish Fire Department’ and not ‘custom’. There is a similar M3 to the IIIG in the photo of the whole collection, but one is a prototype and one a custom M3? Close inspection may show I’m mistaken and they aren’t at all similar in finish and style, but following the lineage and clues isn’t a bad thing to do if it saves somebody some money somewhere down the line. So with no suspicion attached somebody made a terrible job of refinishing a rare prototype Leica, and somebody made a terrible custom job of making some red coloured M3’s, does that suit you? But ‘terrible’ is the common denominator.

I am certainly advertising to sell them to you who are thousands of kilometers away.  I asked because I saw that in German "hand muster" can mean something like a prototype.. then what is your opinion about people on the forum if you think that someone can sell them something that is not.  you could politely tell me not to title like that, but differently, and I would have corrected it.  it's not hard to be nice.

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