Hi all. So I have those two Zenits with interesting Mashpriborintorg stickers. Never seen those before. Curious thing is they are suspiciously similar to famous Japanese "Passed" stickers.
This raises a lot of questions like: 1) Did MPI carry an extra quality control for export cameras and put those stickers as a "guarantee mark"? 2) Or was this purely a marketing things designed to ape Japanese makers? 3) Or maybe those were put not by MPI, but a European distributor?
Did anyone encounter those? I'd appreciate any info.
Juhani, why would a local distributor put on Mashpriborintorg stickers on? It makes little sense... I think it has to be done by Mashpriborintorg before it reaches the distributor due to a distributor special requirement. It is very possible it's done only for a Netherlands market before it is distributed as it seems these were found there.
I also find it non convincing that a Dutch distributor (e.g East West Agencies) would put a sticker saying Машприборинторг in Russian. Although I can't be 100% sure they were originally sold in the Netherlands, this is most likely the case. And I forgot to mention that one camera is Revueflex-E from 1974 and the other is Zenit-EM from 1975.
Mashpriborintorg passed sticker?
Posted - Sep 15 2016 : 1:31:20 PM
