I am a new member and this is my first post. It is also a new thread because I feared that a similar thread initiated by Steve S may have withered in the sands of time. Anyway, I recently got my second 10x15 Perka; like my first and like Steve S's it has two small focus wheels. However this Perka has some strikingly different features.
The original leather has been replaced with a light gray leatherette; the bed has been repainted (without much care with an airbrush) in a similar light gray; the rotating rear is now finished in polished aluminum as is the stanchion holding the lens board. It is clear to me that the camera was modified, not manufactured in this form. But most important, and unseen by me until I received the camera from the German seller, is a plate screwed into midposition of the bed that reads as follows:
Werk No. 18764 [number stamped] Geräte No 1112 [number stamped]
Baumuster H ["H" stamped]
Linhof O.H.G. München
Präzisions-Kamera-Werk [followed by the 1930s-40s Linhof trademark]
It occurs to me that the H stands for Heer, "army" in German. An email inquiry to München as to the significance of this plate was answered, but not at all forthcoming. Has anyone else encountered anything similar?
The original leather has been replaced with a light gray leatherette; the bed has been repainted (without much care with an airbrush) in a similar light gray; the rotating rear is now finished in polished aluminum as is the stanchion holding the lens board. It is clear to me that the camera was modified, not manufactured in this form. But most important, and unseen by me until I received the camera from the German seller, is a plate screwed into midposition of the bed that reads as follows:
Werk No. 18764 [number stamped] Geräte No 1112 [number stamped]
Baumuster H ["H" stamped]
Linhof O.H.G. München
Präzisions-Kamera-Werk [followed by the 1930s-40s Linhof trademark]
It occurs to me that the H stands for Heer, "army" in German. An email inquiry to München as to the significance of this plate was answered, but not at all forthcoming. Has anyone else encountered anything similar?
