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121 Leica M4 Olive %u2014 Factory Presentation Camera %u20ac14.000*no.1266A, c.1970, condition A%u2013 %u20ac 20.000 %u2013 30.000A highly unusual Leica M4 in olive-green finish. Only 31 oliveM4 cameras are known from regular production, numbered 1266101%u20131266131 and supplied to the West German military in 1970. The camera offered here bears the remarkableserial number 1266A, clearly differing from the regularnumbering of the production series. Leica used the letter %u2018A%u2019for %u2018Attrappe%u2019 on cameras originally intended as non-functional display or demonstration models. Interestingly, all major components and construction details of the present camera are consistent with the small series of original olive M4 cameras, and the camera is fully functional. This suggests that it may originally have been produced byLeitz as an olive presentation or display camera and subsequently converted at the factory into a working example. Included is an unnumbered Elmar 2.8/5 cm lens.A fascinating and apparently unique variation of the already very rare olive Leica M4.