Dear John Hermanson,
Add me in.
tOM
On Friday, October 18, 2002 at 13:54, John Hermanson
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wrote re "Re: [OM] OM-2n signed by Maitani" saying:
> www.zuiko.com/maitani_plate.htm
>
> I have some of these plates. They were put on some 2Ns in the early 80S
> (and the bottoms engraved for the dealer with either his name or ss
> number) given to dealers who sold a certain dollar amount of OM
> equipment. They are not authentic "signed Maitani" bodies. Maitani
> scribed his name inside the area where the box flap goes. First 10
> people I hear from by email will get a free Maitani plate as shown in
> the ebay picture. USA only (and since it's free and this kind of item
> ....well.....is extremely limited, if it gets lost in the mail, there
> can be no replacements sent out). I posted a picture of these plates
> awhile ago but I figure either no one cared or noone went to look at it.
> _________________________________ John Hermanson www.zuiko.com Camtech,
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> ----- From: "Mark Dapoz" <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [OM] OM-2n signed by
> Maitani
>
>
> > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Frank van Lindert wrote:
> >
> > > I own two of these 2N's. The 'real' ones (like mine) certainly look
> > > different:
> > > http://home.hccnet.nl/frank.van.lindert/Frank/Maitani_1.jpg
> > >
> > > They were handed out to some winning sales dealers in the USA. I was
> > > told that about 100 were made...
> >
> > There are two types of "signed" Maitani cameras. One is the type you
> > show above. It has the Maitani sticker applied to it and was indeed
> > given out to dealers. The second type is an actual signature from
> > Maitani himself. He regularly signed cameras for enthusiasts back in
> > Olympus' heyday. As C.H. pointed out, the difficulty with the second
> > type is determining the authenticity of the signature. There really
> > is no way of determining if Maitani actually signed it. -mark
> >
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