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Leica M3 black € 8.000 *
paint + Leicavit MP
no. 1078766, 1963, € 16.000 – 20.000
condition B+
An original M3 black paint, very rare version
factory-adapted to use with Leicavit MP, from
an official batch of 300 cameras issued in
1963, in very good condition, small dent near
the rewind knob, incl. black paint Leicavit MP
(totally restored).
Hektor 2.5/12 cm prototype outfit € 20.000 *
no. 753027, 1949, condition A/B € 40.000 – 50.000
An extremely rare high-speed telephoto lens, from a small engraved with ‘Hektor 12 cm, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, Germany’
batch of only 14 lenses issued for testing purposes in 1949 and 12 cm prototype frame finder. Also included in this lot
(all later production lenses were 12.5 cm), designed to work is a Visoflex I with 45° finder and a Leica IIc no. 433633. The
with Visoflex I, also usable on Visoflex II with the OUBIO 12 cm Hektor is one of the rarest Leica lenses, and this is one
extension tube, here in a set with matching near-mint hood of the best examples known to exist.
