A 24 x 36mm. chrome-body X-Ray Leica camera no. 333364, the top-plate with unmarked shutter-speed dial, shutter-blind lever, modified SCNOO winder, lens flange engraved X. W., non-capping shutter and a Leitz/Taylor-Hobson Xenon 5cm. f/1.5 lens no. 288518.

Details

A 24 x 36mm. chrome-body X-Ray Leica camera no. 333364, the top-plate with unmarked shutter-speed dial, shutter-blind lever, modified SCNOO winder, lens flange engraved X. W., non-capping shutter and a Leitz/Taylor-Hobson Xenon 5cm. f/1.5 lens no. 288518.

Literature

Paul-Henry van Hasbroeck (1983), Leica, p. 71, 73, 74.
James L. Lager (1994), Leica. An Illustrated History, p. 161-164.

Further details

Condition: 3F.

Lot Essay

From 1939, batch numbered 333301-333600.
This camera would appear to be a 1939 Leica Standard converted to an X-ray Leica for the Westinghouse Corporation. This was done by Leitz during the early years of the Second World War.

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