I am a lucky collector. Mimmi Zucco (a wellknown Italian dealer - Fotocamera, Milano) sold me a VP Night, in very fine condition. Few days later he called me an he told me that an English dealer had an Exakta Jr (marked Ihagee) for sale. I replied immediately "Buy it for me, don't discuss about the price". A week later it was in Milan, today I have it (#413629, lens Ihagee 611169) at home, together with the first one (#413561, lens Ihagee 611129), out of the small initial first batch of perhaps at most 50 cameras as you can read on the following letter from the late Stein Falchenberg :
"You should be very pleased to have got one of the rare and little known Ihagee Jr. cameras. I have known of these cameras for many years... Most if not all that has been written in modern times have ignored this camera, but interestingly it is illustrated as the Junior in Gerhart Isert prewar "Standard" Exakta book. Even Hummel in his new book refers only to Exakta Jr.

Anyway it is quite clear that the original model was called Ihagee Jr, and I have a group of 4 serial numbers between 413522 and 561, a small initial batch of perhaps at most 50 cameras. Then one at 418888 and surprisingly a sole Exakta JR AT 419059, and then the first batch of Exakta Jr from 429362 to 430270, say 1000 cameras. It may be significant that the sole early Exakta Jr which appears to be of the same batch as the last Ihagee Jr was in USA. Perhaps the US importer insisted on the camera being Exaktas?"

If you wish to look at the page about my first Ihagee Jr, you can click here. Now please wait for some minutes because I add many pictures of the second Ihagee Jr.