bussta Posted May 23, 2009 Share #1 Posted May 23, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just wondering if anybody or know anyone thats been lucky enough to find a Leica in a charity/junk shop? I often look in them in the hope they don't know what a gold mine they are sitting on, but have never had the luck to find one as of yet! Will Keep searching Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jc_braconi Posted May 23, 2009 Share #2 Posted May 23, 2009 Good luck ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
berthram Posted May 23, 2009 Share #3 Posted May 23, 2009 Wouldn't stay more than half a minute in that kind of shop I think:D (I know someone who spend all is time searching old cameras in theses shop: he has around 500/600 cameras but any Leica But I bet that you can find Leitz lenses or rarest things than leicas as Alpas, Foca, Rectaflex or such kind of camera and lenses: "Kern Switar" doesn't means anything for 99,9999% of the people;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted May 23, 2009 Share #4 Posted May 23, 2009 Once, I found a nice Leica but someone had engraved their name on it 'Luftwaffe' and they wouldn't budge from the asking price of £15 so I walked away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted May 23, 2009 Share #5 Posted May 23, 2009 Once, I found a nice Leica but someone had engraved their name on it 'Luftwaffe' and they wouldn't budge from the asking price of £15 so I walked away. Must have been the same shop I bought my "Luftwaffe" Leica from while visiting the UK - got them down to £12; guess I am a better negotiator than James! I had the "Luftwaffe" name ground off and the camera looks much better now. Best, Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don'tknowmuch Posted May 23, 2009 Share #6 Posted May 23, 2009 Funnily enough I did find a Leica in a charity shop! In a box of old cutlery there was a dusty M2, no cap, but a quick wind on and click and all seemed well. The viewfinder was bright and clear too. Next to some spoons was a jar that looked as if it was full of old nuts and bolts with a couple of old crayons poking out the top. I picked up the jar and held it up to the window and could just make out a couple of larger metal objects in there as well as the ironmongery. Slowly I took out the nuts and bolts and found, with caps in place, an f 2.8 Summaron and a Pre-asph Summicron! I asked the lady behind the counter how much she wanted for the box of cutlery. "That old stuff there?" "Yes, this box with the nice knives and forks." "Oh - you can have those old knives and forks for 25 pence." Trying not to hurry I took out my wallet. "But it'll be £2,200 with the camera gear." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted May 23, 2009 Share #7 Posted May 23, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Bugger! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted May 23, 2009 Share #8 Posted May 23, 2009 Haven't discovered any Leica cameras in charity shops but bought some decent Nikkor NK lenses last year from one shop. Most charity shops seem to have "specialist" pricing staff for cameras who invariably mark up everything as 'collectible' even when it isn't. Nearest I've got to a Leica are a couple of Fed cameras and a Zorki. Oxfam seem to know when real collectibles are donated and they then offer them on ebay or their central collectibles/distribution centres eg a pair of Barr & Stroud binoculars which they overpriced. Cheers dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussta Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share #9 Posted May 24, 2009 Funnily enough I did find a Leica in a charity shop! In a box of old cutlery there was a dusty M2' date=' no cap, but a quick wind on and click and all seemed well. The viewfinder was bright and clear too. Next to some spoons was a jar that looked as if it was full of old nuts and bolts with a couple of old crayons poking out the top. I picked up the jar and held it up to the window and could just make out a couple of larger metal objects in there as well as the ironmongery. Slowly I took out the nuts and bolts and found, with caps in place, an f 2.8 Summaron and a Pre-asph Summicron! I asked the lady behind the counter how much she wanted for the box of cutlery. "That old stuff there?" "Yes, this box with the nice knives and forks." "Oh - you can have those old knives and forks for 25 pence." Trying not to hurry I took out my wallet. "But it'll be £2,200 with the camera gear."[/quote'] Brilliant! You lucky lucky bugger!, am sure there are a few M6's etc sitting in charity shops, especially as that generation would probably think they have no value now because of digital cams. Here' hoping ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alifie Posted May 24, 2009 Share #10 Posted May 24, 2009 I did get a Nettar once for a whole fiver, it had a 1/2 exposed film in it. When developed the photos looked like they where from the fifties. Not bad latent image storage time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posto 6 Posted May 24, 2009 Share #11 Posted May 24, 2009 Rather surprisingly, in 2006, I found my late, 1967-vintage, almost mint condition DR-Summicron with glasses, for R$150 (roughly STG40 at the time) in a junk shop in the Saara market, Rio de Janeiro. It had obviously hardly been used, and had no flaws at all, even coming with a nice half-moon leather case. Brasil and Argentina, in particular, can be a rich source for older Leica equipment, although one has to have a bit of patience. I also had bought from a Rio street-seller, in 1998, a rather battered but still very serviceable M4 for under (US) $50! Anyway, in both Rio and Argentina, generally speaking, it is the very old Leicas that were imported when the local economies were doing rather better than in the 1980's and 90's Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
offshore Posted May 24, 2009 Share #12 Posted May 24, 2009 Just wondering if anybody or know anyone thats been lucky enough to find a Leica in a charity/junk shop? I often look in them in the hope they don't know what a gold mine they are sitting on, but have never had the luck to find one as of yet! Will Keep searching In 2004 I wandered into a "second hand" store in Santa Barbara and found a 1930 Leica 1 with the 50 Elmar, a 1932 Leica II with Elmar and a 1936 Laica III with Elmar. All three were out of the same collection a doctor had owned, were all in good working order and the '36 III was near mint. When I asked the shopkeeper about them he only said they were some old cameras from a doctors collection and if I bought all three he would discount them to me. He wanted $240 each for them and gave me a discount of 20% for all three. I doubt I'll ever get that lucky again but I keep looking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrid Posted May 24, 2009 Share #13 Posted May 24, 2009 I found a very clean IIIc with 3.5/50 Elmar at a garage sale. Got it for $100. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo035 Posted May 24, 2009 Share #14 Posted May 24, 2009 Just wondering if anybody or know anyone thats been lucky enough to find a Leica in a charity/junk shop? I often look in them in the hope they don't know what a gold mine they are sitting on, but have never had the luck to find one as of yet! Will Keep searching only a Prado S for £5 at a Second-hand Market. [for the pedants : A market where second-hand goods are sold :-) ] Sold it on a few weeks later to a Dealer for £40.... then wondered how much he got for it .. Still hoping to come across a LTM in similar circumstances .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert J Posted May 24, 2009 Share #15 Posted May 24, 2009 In 2002 I found a visoflex I with bayonnet mount,A bellows I unit ,a13.5cm hektor f4.5 lens head,a 13.5cm f4 elmar,A 90mmf4 collapsible elmar,a 3.5cmf3.5summaron A metz 45ct5 flash unit and a braun flash at a used furniture store.I had entire outfit except for the M3 body and standard lens.The whole group cost me $125.00.At around the same time I found a tower type three(leica copy)with a 5cm f2 nikkor lens and everready case in almost mint condition at a charity shop for a price of $2.00. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don'tknowmuch Posted May 24, 2009 Share #16 Posted May 24, 2009 I should come clean; my little tale was written to be taken as a joke; a sort of shaggy dog tale about how one just doesn't luck into these things. I'm sure you realise that. However, it seems as if some others had similar experiences for real! I needed to explain myself. Jim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted May 25, 2009 Share #17 Posted May 25, 2009 A few years back, I stopped in a pawnshop and noticed a rather beat-up Leica IIIa with a 50mm Elmar. Enquired about price – US$450.00, rather high for a camera that looked as if pulled out of a hungry dog’s mouth. Just as I was just about to leave, I noticed a very nice M4 with a black pre-asph 1.4/35mm Summilux on a top shelf, rather hidden from view. After the shocking price of the IIIa I thought it pointless to ask the price but, I did. US$400.00 was the response! Out came the VISA card and I beat a hasty and immediate retreat, just in case they changed their mind! Best, Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikau Posted May 25, 2009 Share #18 Posted May 25, 2009 This story is not about a charity shop, but it's in keeping with the tone of this thread. Back in the 1970s, in the camera shop I frequented, I was expressing to the salesman modest interest in getting a screwmount body, "just for fun" (I owned an M4 and an SL at the time). He reached under the counter and brought out a pristine Leica 72 with a $700 price tag. I said something to the effect of, "who'd pay $700 for THAT? It's not even full-frame!" I remember the incident every time I see what a 72 has sold for! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
microview Posted June 3, 2009 Share #19 Posted June 3, 2009 Most charity shops seem to have "specialist" pricing staff for cameras who invariably mark up everything as 'collectible' even when it isn't. Same for classical LPs: no longer 99p inOxfam shops, nearer £5.00. So, as you seem to add on this thread, Bugger! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianv Posted June 3, 2009 Share #20 Posted June 3, 2009 $30 for the pair, with lenses. $15 more for a Rolleicord V, and another $15 for a Rollei 35TE... In another shop, I found a Nikon M with 5cm F1.4 for $30. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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