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Mine has 'Leica Camera' on the left with the serial number on the right. She said that by the 2M mark, Leica had started bean counting (she reiterated this many times over) and that the cameras likely had many corners cut and would likely be unreliable Bentleyg.
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Update: A reader just sent me another way of determining the production year of Leica cameras and lenses: just got to this website, and type the serial number. I obtained it years ago in form of a bad photocopy. I am the lucky owner of a list of Leica serial numbers, starting with the pre-production cameras in 1923 and up to 1965.
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For detailed reading and a complete range of serial numbers you may find the Leica Compendium by Erwin Puts helpful.Leica made lens number 1,000,000, a 50mm f/1.5 Summarit, on 24 October 1952, at which time they already had onver 100 years of experiance Serial numbers as low as 50,000 are still floating around. As serial numbers should be, they gave each lens its own serial number, and counted up.Leica I: 1926-27: camera 5434: 5700: Leica I: 1928: camera 5701: 6300: Leica Compur: 1926-29: camera 6301: 13100: Leica I: 1928: camera 13101: 13300: Leica Compur: 1929: camera 13301: 21478: Leica I: 1929: camera 21479: 21810: Leica Compur: 1930: camera 21811: 34450: Leica I: 1930: camera 34451: 34802: Leica Compur: 1930: camera 34803: 34817: Leica I (Luxus) 1930: camera 34818: 60000: Leica I: 1930: camera 60001: 71199: Leica I: 193 One of the cameras included here, Leica serial number 150, began life as an ultra-rare Leica I (Model A) with 50mm f/3.5 Leitz Anastigmat lens and us now a gorgeous black finished Leica IIIa UMBAU-still a rare and valuable collector's item but probably worth a lot less after the conversion Serial Numbers Leica Cameras - Leica Wiki (English