Help value prototype Zenit E
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Topic author: richardjbiggs
Posted on: 20160922122936
I have a prototype Zenit E which is or was a Zenit 3M with a wink mirror and built in exposure meter. Number 6400006.
I have no idea what it may be worth. Does anyone have an idea?
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Reply author: AlexanderK
Replied on: 20160922130237
Hello,
could you post some photos here please?
Regards, Alexander
Reply author: seany65
Replied on: 20160923105331
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by richardjbiggs</i>
<br />I have a prototype Zenit E which is or was a Zenit 3M with a wink mirror and built in exposure meter. Number 6400006.
I have no idea what it may be worth. Does anyone have an idea?
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seany65 thinks very quickly:
"Um, nothing at all, in fact it's so worthless that you may as well send it to me, so that it's not 'cluttering up' your house".[:D]
Does anyone think richard will fall for that?[;)]
Reply author: Guido
Replied on: 20160923113055
Hello Richard
You can't know the price of something you didn't sold already.
I know of a modified Zenit-3M called Zenit-3EM found by Alexander Schulz (see:
http://www.g-st.ch/privat/kameras/zenitbuchtext.html#71) that was sold in a german photo auction some years ago for a reasonable price like about 300 Euro if I remember correctly.
By the way it would very kind of you to show us some pictures of your camera. Thank you.
Best wishes - Guido
Reply author: richardjbiggs
Replied on: 20160926043326
I contacted a specialist camera auction house and their next sale is early October so they asked me to send the camera and an unmarked Kiev 4A to them straight away.
I do have a photo of the Zenit and the Kiev but I will have to find out how to post the pictures.
There is someone in France who is interested in both cameras so I was going to let him know the details of the auction so he could bid online.
Reply author: richardjbiggs
Replied on: 20160926044414
Reply author: AlexanderK
Replied on: 20160926114515
Hello Richard,
could you post please the details of the auction here as well?
Thanks,
Alexander
Reply author: contronatura
Replied on: 20160926120308
I have one rusty dusty broken Zenit-3M lying around. Now I know what am I gonna do with it.
Reply author: richardjbiggs
Replied on: 20161026054937
The Zenit 3m / E prototype and the Kiev 4A with no Russian markings, one of only 6000 produced for USA market, are being auctioned by Special Auction Services on 3rd November 2016. Lot numbers M122 and M 123.
Their web site with details of how to bid is
www.specialauctionservices.com
Reply author: richardjbiggs
Replied on: 20161026054945
The Zenit 3m / E prototype and the Kiev 4A with no Russian markings, one of only 6000 produced for USA market, are being auctioned by Special Auction Services on 3rd November 2016. Lot numbers M122 and M 123.
Their web site with details of how to bid is
www.specialauctionservices.com
Reply author: AlexanderK
Replied on: 20161026123752
Thank you, Richard.
Very interesting link. I did't know anything about SAS.
Regards, Alexander
Reply author: Fred_L
Replied on: 20161105075515
Hi All
I am used to do business with SAS
This sale was very interesting
I was online and it seems some ussr collectors were on the floor..
This Zenit made £2400 +fees (20%)[:0]
The Fed 1a made £1600 + fees.. and so on...
Really high prices...All prices realized are here:
http://www.specialauctionservices.com/large/cm031116/index.htmlI just got a Fed 1b and a Global/Horizont and a Gomz Sport....[8D]
Fred
Reply author: Jacques M.
Replied on: 20161105120150
Once more, USSRphoto was used as a way to get better prices. It's not the first time...
Thanks for your feeling and the listing of prices, Jean.
Jacques.
