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A good fake from FED
Teh lens is the Industar 22 by judging the meter scale the front is redone with a new ring, reengraved andhas a reducer for the neyw aperture.
That is my veredict.
Regards
LP
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Originally posted by Vlad


What's even more interesting this exact camera (seems like it) is in the McKeown's 12th edition.


... and I think exact this fact is the reason for this fantastic auction price.
Maybe they are doing business together? Big smile

Nevertheless it is rather strange for me. I know this Auction Team Breker for some time and they seems to be very professional. Some time ago it was not possible to buy on Breker's online, exclusively personally in Cologne.

Regards, Alexander
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Yes, this is FED 1c, the vulcanite is from postwar Leica. I don't see rewind knob it seems to be from Leica too.
What is the lever (you have to set it at "R" in Leica when you want re rewind a film) from ?
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Yes, a late 1c or a 1d (position of the central screw, no pin on the accessory shoe and probably no screw under the rewind button).
The rewind lever comes from a Fed too (with B under it, instead of R on Leicas).

No certitude concerning the mechanism. Probably a Fed's...

Amitiés. Jacques.
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Originally posted by AlexanderK

Jacques,
you can offer your camera to Breker's Big smile

Regards, Alexander



Sure I will!Cool But it won't be "covered" by the McKeown...

To be serious, I think that the upper Nicca, on the McKeown page, is certainly genuine: correct cover, good finder window shape, and plausible serial number. By what I know!
On the lower one (which was just bought), a Fed shape for the window, a serial number which is unknown. Above all, a "B" mark under the rewind lever which denotes a Russian product. And other details.

Sorry for the owner, even if I am not a Nicca specialist. Of course, there can be original Nicca parts, in this camera. The lens, for example, cannot be a Fed's. My Nicca-Fed contains original Nicca parts too: cover, rangefinder and baseplate. But I paid 50 times less for it...

Jacques.

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