Leica IIIc Red Curtain lens mount_Mamiya NC but all functions are good

but all functions are good

like the Contax G series

and clean diaphragm

but it's got it where it counts

It looks a bit suspect from the back

Leica IIIc Red Curtain lens mount_Mamiya NC but all functions are goodAll right, so there was a time in the early to mid 1940s when German industries found their normal course of doing business complicated by, let's say, a convolution of international relations. With imports restricted and German manufacturing capacity allocated to more, ah, pressing priorities, Leica found itself in a bit of a pickle: they'd been contracted to supply cameras to certain government agencies which will remain here unnamed, but they'd run