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Author Message   Karl Tinkerer Username: Karl Post Number: 69 Registered: 03-2008 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2011 - 11:23 am:    I am about to start restoring a Rollicord II type 1,which is in a very poor state but fully working.(please see post on swap zone,"Viewing mirror,Rollicord)The thing is as I will have to strip off and replace all the original leather and re-paint the body of the camera,do I.Restore to as close to the original as possible or replace with coloured leather panels and re-paint in colour rather than the original black.Has anyone done this and how does it look,or does it just "de-value" the camera in an aesthetic sense.