A 35mm Kiev with case is lot 48 in Sunday’s auction.
Toronto. One of my co-workers commented years ago that a client (he was in the debt consolidation business at the time) had given him a new ‘Leica’ and the accessory lenses. Well, that sparked my interest.
My family visited his and after some chatter, Henry took me to the bedroom, bent down, and slid a cardboard box out from under the bed. Nestled inside with a few lenses was a brand new … Kiev! Not a Leica but a Russian copy (sort of) of the famous German Contax. The Kiev was manufactured at the time in the Ukraine.
I have seen the odd one over the years, so imagine my surprise when this little beauty showed up as lot 48 in this Sunday’s auction! When the Kiev was manufactured, Germany having lost WW2 was thoughtfully ‘quartered’ by the victors – UK, USA, France and … Russia. Soon copies of high end cameras emerged from the USSR. Be they Leicas or Contaxes, they were made in the Ukraine.
Join us at the Sunday Estate auction – free parking, free admission and a very friendly crowd. A great way to pass a Sunday afternoon. A slide show of the lots and directions, times, etc are shown here.
