Fed 1 Anniversary 1654-1954.

Hello Jacques!
Diagonal red inscription: Anniversary

Jacques, can I ask you to make a table of famous cameras "Forever at once with Moscow"?
I have a few more numbers, I can add them to your table. Where you indicated in the post, whose I can not add unfortunately.

The table is there: http://ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=48&ParentID=1&ContentID=914&Item=Fed+1+Anniversary+1654%2D1954

Normally, you should be able to complete it. If it is not the case, for some reason, please give the numbers directly here, I will add them in the wiki.

Amitiйs.

Very interesting!
May I ask, is there only the passport or do the actual camera and lens exist too?

Many thanks for the new commentaries and numbers in the wiki, Alexey! Some are very interesting.
I think too that 300 items is probably too restrictive, and 3000 much too important.
Could somebody translate the new article into English?

Thanks. Jacques.

Niko80
I bought only one certificate without a camera unfortunately! Maybe someday a camera with this number will appear and they will offer me to buy it ?! :)))

I have found the s/n 466624, lens s/n 3874.
This camera just takes place between the two batches of Fed anniversaries. It is an ordinary 1g: interesting news to limit the number of "anniversaries".

I will post photos when it is here. (added in the wiki).

Amitiйs. Jacques.

One more anniversary FED from France:

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/FED-1-type-G-Anniversaire-Ukraine-Russie-1654-1954/283957656693?hash=item421d31fc75:g:ilsAAOSwjdFenCY~

Regards, Alexander

Thanks, Alexander.
It's very probably a fake, like the other one you had previously quoted (main feature: the open "4").

Amitiйs. Jacques.

So, my s/n 466624 is here.
Nothing special to say about it: it's a regular Fed 1g.
Two photos:


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/1182020_IMG_0177.JPG


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/1182020_IMG_0179.JPG

So, there were two different batches for these "anniversary" cameras. But why?

Amitiйs. Jacques.

An excellend find, Jacques!

Have you compared the top plates of the regular FED1'g' and the 'Anniversary'?
Do you think it is possible someone removed the FED logo and serial by grinding/polishing and re-engraved it as 'Anniversary'?

Is the FED logo identical and in the same place?
Or were indeed pristine top-plates used?

If I compare a 1f-2nd series and an "anniversary", the logo and the factory are strictly at the same place.

So, the easiest way to fake an "anniversary" is to use a 1f, second series (with number, logo, and factory on cover), to erase the number, replace it by the red inscription, and add a correct serial number on the back of the cover.

Probably Fed used non-numbered 1f-second series covers to make the "anniversaries"...

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Received this morning a Fed "anniversary", second batch:


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/582025_IMG_1927.JPG


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/582025_IMG_1925.JPG


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/582025_IMG_1931.JPG

As already noted, no other difference than the logo in black on the first batch:


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/582025_IMG_1933.JPG

Other photos if useful.

Amitiйs. Jacquers.

Hi Jacques, congratulation on another rare camera addition! I did notice unfortunately that these black-filled engravings were filled with black or red (in some cases) after the fact to embellish the cameras, I am somewhat doubtful this is a factory feature.

Best regards,
Vlad

Hi Vlad,
By what I have seen, all the cameras of the first batch have a logo filled in black. And none of the second batch.
That should mean that all that was factory made. But that must be checked... So, comments are welcome!

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Jacques, to be specific, you're talking about first batch of this particular anniversary camera?

Jacques,

mine with serial 468485 has no black filled logo.

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

Thanks, Ulrich. That confirms what we can suppose.
Vlad, to be clear, I was just talking about these specific Fed anniversaries. It seems that the cameras belonging to the first "batch" (s/n around 465xxx) have the logo filled in black, whereas the second batch (s/n 4684xx) don't have black in the logo. Of course, the anniversary inscription is always in red!...
It's probably a factory made difference, contrarily to some other Feds with added black or red colour: I agree with you.

Amitiйs. Jacques.
PS: for the limits of the two batches: https://ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=48&ParentID=1&ContentID=914&Item=Fed+1+Anniversary+1654%2D1954

I have just tried to complete the wiki about that question of logo filled -or not- with black. And it seems that the s/n 468456 has a logo in black. Exception or else... (ref. Sovietcams, PE0310).