high price for a IIIa

[Ron (Netherlands)]

never saw such a high price for a IIIa (post war)

http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170279609475&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=007

[kully]

That is expensive, perhaps collector value for the box and case?

About 1.5 years ago my nice IIIa sat around for ages at £100 in the classifieds here.

[chippy]

wow! that is a high price...at first i thought it was just someones asking price, but that was what it reached at auction!

i can only assume that being a late post war model is of interest to some, or perhaps the sharkskin covering. He says he is not sure if the box is original which probably means it is not. In comparison I have a 1935 IIIa with original summar, in perfect condition with original box (has the matching serial numbers of the camera and lens on the bottom of box) came with accessories too...i cant imagine that i would get that much for it!

[LeicaTom]

It`s purely a numbers game and also from the last one`s made, (postwar Leica IIIA`s are rare) and just like the last "wartime" stepped rewind IIIC`s (1946 issue) the cameras demand higher prices and are more desirable to collectors....

Tom

[chippy]

It`s purely a numbers game and also from the last one`s made, (postwar Leica IIIA`s are rare) and just like the last "wartime" stepped rewind IIIC`s (1946 issue) the cameras demand higher prices and are more desirable to collectors....

Tom

a numbers game, yeah i guess... is it really worth it though? (i guess it is if you have everything else) i can see why someone will perhaps want a late model stepped IIIc because of bearings/half race/full race ect that is one of your specialty interest areas that you often talk about, nice old style camera with the best features available of the time. but is there any significant differance to a pre-war IIIa to a post war IIIa?

it was clearly favoured by someone, but it still seems very excessive to me. this time last year i was considering a genuine ''Monte' en Sarre'' IIIa which ended up selling for a simular pice, out of those two camera i would prefer the 'Monte...

i guess it doesnt appeal to me as much to have a leica IIIa that was built 13-15 years after they were first introduced (by that time its out of date technology), i would rather have a nice example of an early model, or a 38 IIIb or a 40 IIIc. all the books i have so far seem to indicate the same thing as well in regars to collectors. for buying a camera of those later years i would probably go for the type of cameras you often mention Tom

[writingwithlight]

It is indeed madness.:eek: I got mine from a member here with the original casing w/o the box for around 150-180USD...

[LeicaTom]

a numbers game, yeah i guess... is it really worth it though? (i guess it is if you have everything else) i can see why someone will perhaps want a late model stepped IIIc because of bearings/half race/full race ect that is one of your specialty interest areas that you often talk about, nice old style camera with the best features available of the time. but is there any significant differance to a pre-war IIIa to a post war IIIa?

it was clearly favoured by someone, but it still seems very excessive to me. this time last year i was considering a genuine ''Monte' en Sarre'' IIIa which ended up selling for a simular pice, out of those two camera i would prefer the 'Monte...

i guess it doesnt appeal to me as much to have a leica IIIa that was built 13-15 years after they were first introduced (by that time its out of date technology), i would rather have a nice example of an early model, or a 38 IIIb or a 40 IIIc. all the books i have so far seem to indicate the same thing as well in regars to collectors. for buying a camera of those later years i would probably go for the type of cameras you often mention Tom

Yes, it was just some engraving variatiion, nothing different about the camera from a 1939 IIIA

Well, just from personal experience the 1945/46 Stepped Rewind Platform cameras, seem to have a higher build quality and many folks who do CLA work, prefer to repair them rather than post #402xxx (1946/47) cameras, but either way they (some choice collectors and photographers) lust after the early IIIC`s, they just see that step and go crazy! :eek:

Tom