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It was a happy ending — just in time for Christmas.

A rare $13,000 limited-edition Leica M-P Safari, the last item yet to be recovered after last week’s break-in at The Camera Store, has been returned to the grateful owners of the popular Calgary photography shop.

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Camera Store co-owner Julian Ferreira confirmed to Postmedia on Friday that the valuable camera was indeed back in their possession.

“The officer-in-charge phoned us last night saying they’d executed a search warrant and found the missing Leica,” he said.

“And now we have a 100% recovery rate. It’s brilliant.”

In the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 16, thieves broke into the 11 Ave. S.W. store and helped themselves to high-end photography gear — a Hasselblad X1D camera and a number of lenses, as well as the Leica.

A tip from the public led police to find the stolen Hasselblad listed for sale on the popular online buy-and-sell site Kijiji, and undercover cops posing as interested buyers met up with the sellers and took them into custody just two days after the brazen theft.