Fake "L" seal or not?

I should rephrase (let's be PC), original Leica "L" seal or not? This seal is

from a M4 that's on sale on the bay. I still have a few Ms that have the raised

original "L" seal, but I've never seen one that's indented before. If it not

Leica. who's seal is it? Thanks<div></div>

Here's this

 

"List from this gleaned from links above: + A raised "L" is a camera made in the Weztlar factory. + A recessed "L" is a camera repaired by Leica factory repair pre-1981 or 1982) + The Leitz Canada Midland factory seal was a raised "C". This is less common than the raised "L". Its use started in about 1957 and stopped with the production of the M4-2, which had a plain wax seal. + Kinderman's Gerry Smith's seal is a raised "J". NB "J" eventhough Gerry Smith. + Don A Goldberg's seal is a raised "92". + Sherry Krauter's is a "K" but it is not a seal it is scratched into the wax with a pin. + "O" per David Watts of pdn "Leica trained technician in Adelaide, South Australia". [Details please David? Thanks.] + "M" and "A" are unknown on this forum."

 

from this link:

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00LIqz

I'd be less concerned about the seal than the abuse that's been meted out to the screw shown at the top of the photo.

 

Someone has abused that screw and that doesn't bode well for what else they might have done elsewhere in the camera.

 

Mike

From the looks of that screw in the picture someone other than a Leica technician has been having at the camera. I'd worry a lot more about that than the seal. Good luck!

What Mike and Gil said. Somebody not very clever has been taking a screwdriver (or maybe a knife!) to that camera. Since it's an eBay item, just walk away and don't look back.

I guess the owner/s of this M4, or maybe even the Leica repairman, wasn't so kind to this camera. It's obvious that the vertical rangefinder was fiddled with but then again it maybe fine. At any rate, I not going to bid on this one. Thanks everyone.<div></div>