Rare Leica Filca D without inscription.

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Today I received my last camera, a Leica with a four-digit serial number 1926-27. Inside was what could be a Filca D?. Without any Agfa inscription.

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[TomB_tx]

Could be - looks just like the Leitz-Agfa cassettes I have. I believe when the Leica II was introduced it came with 2 FILCA D, as it initially wouldn’t open the older FILCA models. They quickly reverted and updated the II to work with normal FILCA.

[willeica]

 

We've done a massive amount of discussion on the FILCA D and also the Agfa-Leitz (or the other way around) cassette which it became. The D, if we can call it that, only lasted for a short time, if it was ever really produced, likewise with the C, of which there are but a few examples. Leitz kept going back to the B, which worked well. The two threads which I have linked above have everything that is known, including some notes inside the cover of the 1931 delivery book in the Leica Archive.

Let us know if you can link anything in those threads to what you have. The camera that you got this with is certainly older than the cassette by 5, 6 or 7 years. 

William