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03/04/2008 16:50

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This Vanya started in the Army in 1935 and lived through the Stalin's purges in the 1930's and through the WWII in the 1940's. He was a lucky guy to survive through such rough times. And his wife Tanya loved him.

He surely deserved a nice Kiev III.

03/05/2008 11:31

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i collect too, many dedicate engraved cameras (i wrote in a french cameras collectors magazine about this practice coming from "Viking period")
so for fun i show you the following one.
this camera (Kiev 15 TEE was found in a street, left in garbages just before Berlin wall fall down , in Lwow city. One guy tell me this camera was in former military museum in Lvov (Lviv).

03/05/2008 11:42

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Very nice Alain, for those who do not read Russian:

1. To General of the Army V.I. Varennikov from fellow servicement in Afghanistan 1982-83
2. To Comrade Colonel Birinovskiy (?) for achievements in battle preparations and excellence in following commander's orders. 1940..

Here's my Zorki 4:


Says: To Artillery Major General V.I. Ustinov from Soviet Minister of Defense.

03/05/2008 12:33

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Originally posted by mermoz37

i collect too, many dedicate engraved cameras (i wrote in a french cameras collectors magazine about this practice coming from "Viking period")
so for fun i show you the following one.
this camera (Kiev 15 TEE was found in a street, left in garbages just before Berlin wall fall down , in Lwow city. One guy tell me this camera was in former military museum in Lvov (Lviv).





This is for Army General, the highest General rank in the USSR (after that there is a Marshall), like 4 star general in the US. There might be even some traces of him on the web.
So it is quite possible that such camera was in the museum.

03/05/2008 12:48

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Originally posted by fedka

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Originally posted by mermoz37

i collect too, many dedicate engraved cameras (i wrote in a french cameras collectors magazine about this practice coming from "Viking period")
so for fun i show you the following one.
this camera (Kiev 15 TEE was found in a street, left in garbages just before Berlin wall fall down , in Lwow city. One guy tell me this camera was in former military museum in Lvov (Lviv).





This is for Army General, the highest General rank in the USSR (after that there is a Marshall), like 4 star general in the US. There might be even some traces of him on the web.
So it is quite possible that such camera was in the museum.



I found him, quite interesting, look

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Varennikov

He is still alive. he took the wrong side in the 1991 coup against Gorbachev, was arrested then. No wonder they threw his camera away!

03/05/2008 16:09

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These are beautiful and meaningful cameras! I collect them too. There is a place in the WIKI where photos and the translations and infromation should be entered. It is "Still Cameras - Presentation and Engraved Cameras".

Let's please add them in there too, as well as in the forum! I will add mine as I get to them also.

Alain,
I hope sometime we can get an English translation ofyour article about engraved presentation cameras .... I would love to read it. Or if you can e-mail me the text in French, at home, I will put it through a computer translation, fix it up a bit, and check with you to make sure the translation is accurate, and when it is, maybe put it on the site!



Regards, Bill

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