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<p><strong>Cameras on Stamps</strong><br>

- from the DDR<br>

The Leipziger Messe (Trade Fair, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_Trade_Fair ) is an institution that was first mentioned in the 12th century. It became a major Second World trading venue in Warsaw Pact times.<br /><br />Stamps honoring the Fair go back well before the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (DDR - the “Worker and Peasant State”), but the 1965 DDR stamps honored various optical industries. One stamp honored cameras dear to my heart, the Praktica and the Praktisix (later Pentacon 6). These cameras were produced by the Kombinat VEB Pentacon Dresden and its predecessors and descendants, formed out of various East German companies, including Zeiss Jena.<br /> <br />Here is a macro shot of that stamp:</p><div>00eCZB-566091884.jpg.10b20c9adfcf71bc018ae20e4fce7c65.jpg</div>

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<p>The cameras on the stamp are a 35mm (Kleinbild) camera, the Praktica. Details are a little fuzzy, but it appears to be a Praktica mat (1965-69, Hummel Nr. 152 (<a href="http://www.praktica-collector.de/152_Praktica_mat.htm">http://www.praktica-collector.de/152_Praktica_mat.htm</a> ). <br /><br />I believe this and others of the Praktica nova family are favorites of some of our participants (Subbarayan Prasanna, to wit).<br />Here is my slightly later, but similar, camera in the series, the Praktica nova</p><div>00eCZC-566091984.jpg.d2b9d32f3ecf223e9ff5b3709140524e.jpg</div>
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<p>The other camera is a 6cm format Praktisix II (no Hummel Nr., <a href="http://www.praktica-collector.de/0003_Praktisix_II.htm">http://www.praktica-collector.de/0003_Praktisix_II.htm</a> ). The later Pentacon six TL version is generally considered the top of this series.<br /><br />Here is that later camera with some of its lenses and a plain prism finder on it:</p><div>00eCZE-566092084.jpg.12224782d8b5937355947aa8ac2ab798.jpg</div>
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