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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jring" data-source="post: 3317466" data-attributes="member: 133897">Hi,sure, CZJ could print Flektogon on anything - it was their trademark - and probably not only in Comecon since the Zeiss West called their wide angle line Distagon.If they would do it, is another question ;-)Zeiss Ikon AG was a part of Zeiss Group producing a variety of products including photo and film cameras, film projectors, accounting machines, lamps and cylinder locks. After the war the name was used by a west german company of the same name and an east german one called VEB Zeiss Ikon.It used the Zeiss tessar lens logo with the words Zeiss Ikon until the it was sold and changed its name to Ikon AG in 1989.Joachim</blockquote>