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The importance of serial numbers

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[quote]Hello everybody,
  I would like to say a few things about serial numbers, and how important they are to us. 
  I don't know who instigated the Wiki catalogue, (perhaps Vlad), but in any case it is a brilliant idea and a good way to record a lot of important data.
  For example I often wonder how many of the early Soviet cameras that were produced survive to the present day. 
  The serial numbers provide a good guide to how many were produced, but how many still exist? For the Fotokor is it five percent?, or ten percent?, or fifty percent?. for the Kiev II is twenty percent? or thirty percent? For the Fed-1A of six thousand produced in the mid 1930's how many of these exist now? and so on.
  By logging serial numbers in the Wiki catalogue we can gain and record much important information and data. 
  My fear is that without people like us this information will be lost forever. 
  So, when I return to my home in England at the end of this month one of the first things that I will do is start to enter details of my collction into the Wiki catalogue.
   Regards, Jim
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