eyedeebee Posted January 3, 2008 Share #1 Posted January 3, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) I thought people might be interested in seeing some Leica adverts from old magazines I have recently acquired - most date from the 1930s, and I think these 2 came from Punch magazine - some of the ads I have picked up are precisely dated and many refer to the Leitz shop in Mortimer Street in London - does anyone know what came of this shop? I've also got a few adverts in French from L'Illustration. - If people are interested I'll post some more (both English and French) over the next few days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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giordano Posted January 3, 2008 Share #2 Posted January 3, 2008 I walked past the Leitz place in Mortimer Street many times in the 60s and went in once to get a look at the newly introduced Leicaflex (not that I was within cooee of being able to afford one). It wasn't a shop but Leitz's UK HQ - the scientific instruments as well as cameras - and I think there was a workshop there too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted January 3, 2008 Share #3 Posted January 3, 2008 I love that bit "the cheapest camera in use, the cost per negative is only 1d". Leicas being sold as the cheapest. How things have changed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted January 3, 2008 Share #4 Posted January 3, 2008 "By appointment to HRH The Price of Wales"; who would that be in 1932? That bloke who abdicated, or another of the Dukes of Coburg? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzo Posted January 3, 2008 Share #5 Posted January 3, 2008 These would make lovely frames IMHO. Azzo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejd Posted January 5, 2008 Share #6 Posted January 5, 2008 "By appointment to HRH The Price of Wales"; who would that be in 1932? That bloke who abdicated, or another of the Dukes of Coburg? That would have been Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, who was Prince of Wales from 1910 to 1936. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted January 6, 2008 Share #7 Posted January 6, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) That would have been Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, who was Prince of Wales from 1910 to 1936. Thanks for this info... the "Royal Appointment" was the detail that most catched my eye looking at these interesting ads... and regarding the "chapest cost"... well they specify it's the cheapest FOR PIC : correct if Leica, at that times, was in practice the only 35mm camera available in UK... maybe the Contax wasn't yet sold in UK... or maybe it was, but costier than Leica... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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