M3 'Sharkskin' Sample

Hammer Price
€96,000
incl. Buyer's Premium

Estimate
€25,000 – 30,000

This item is subject to margin scheme taxation and the premium is 24% if it remains in the EU. For shipments to a third country (outside the EU), the premium is 20%.

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Condition

Manufacture Year

1948

Product number

AI_21_14042

unique metal dummy of the first M3 prototype cameras from 1948/49 (5 years before the M3 came on the market), like the first M3 also this shows the crease on the top plate, with sharkskin leather covering. The design of this camera is illustrated in Günther Osterloh '50 Years Leica M'', chrome Dummy Elmar 3.5/50mm with M adapter. The developent of Leica M started already in 1936 with the famous Leica IV, after WWII in 1946 Leica started to design a camera with raid film advance