Need help ID'ing rare (?) Canon FT camera

[scepticswe]

I recently bought this body, along with some FL lenses and didn't think much of it; I was mostly interested in the lenses. Trying to ID the camera (in an attempt to find out how old it is), I tried the Canon Camera Museum but couldn't find it there. It's obviously an FT QL, but what about the engraved "LF"?

Canon FT LF by scepticswe, on Flickr

 

[AgX]

I assume it is an engraved monogram imitating the original typeface.
The colour hue of the paint is slighly more yellow.
The F's are different too.


I admit doing so would need to have/to make a stencil with that typeface first. Maybe one could work from a large-cale drawing. By pantograph anyway.


But if you'd find out who FL was, maybe it is precious never the less. Or just precious due to this kind of work.

 

[blockend]

Maybe a promotion for Canon concessionaires to have a monogrammed FT?

 

[scepticswe]

Thanks guys. It certainly seems like a custom engraving, made to look like the font used by Canon and not an über-rare original Canon...

Still, that kind of work can't have been very cheap. It would be interesting to know the provinence.