a very nice story...

I suppose it's a fake...

http://cgi.befr.ebay.be/Very-rare-camera-FED-SIBERIA-Made-for-Lavrenty-Beriya-/350351187963?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Photography_Film_Cameras_ET&hash=item51928edffb#ht_11618wt_1336

I like the reference to berya... ;-)

Stephan

It must be a fake... it has a Zorki 1e body shell, the digits on the speed knob look too modern to me, and you can see on the top plate where the engraving was removed... But it's a nice work at all :-)

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

For sure it is fake (unless he ordered it after his own death in 1953) and this seller has been know for beautiful fakes for years now.

The large close-up photos of the top-plate, showing no engraving, are very interesting because they illustrate something I have noticed for some time. When the top-plate of a camera has been ground down to take away the original engraving, and even after it has been re-chromed, the edges appear to be very sharp in most cases. The photos of this camera show it well. So this is a good way to tell if a particular top-plate of a camera has been refinished with new engraving, for example, in the case of a fake FED-Zorki or a fake of some other rare camera that requires re-engraving of the top-plate.

Here are the photos to look at and they can easily be compared to an authentic FED or Zorki to see the difference of the edges.







Regards, Bill

Price is outrages! Fed Sibiriya was sold for $80 just few years ago!

It is definitely a fake! Moscowphoto sells 90% fakes on his eBay-shop! Unfortunately, is it so. I have bought last year FED-Zorki fake on this eBay-shop, It seems to be original, but when I have received it, I have seen that it has been assembled from parts from different FED und Zorki cameras with self engraved top plate. Only the price was real.

Regards, Alexander