The top of the lid has model designation (illustrated). Internally the case is in similar condition and is complete with its brass attachment rod in the lid compartment and original instructions for use. The wooden chest is in excellent condition with all straps and catches in good working order.
E. LEITZ BINOCULARS WWI SERIAL
The tripod stand is marked with Houghton & Butcher manufacturer detail, serial number, No.14 MK II model designation & ‘1917’ date. The scope has identification plates with WD marks, designations and Barr & Stroud Ltd London manufacturer detail (all illustrated). The range finder was manufactured by Barr & Stroud Ltd under a British WD contract and retains its original green paint finish and shoulder strap. This set in contained in its original wooden transit chest with its rare leather cover. These rangefinders were used by machine gun crews to calculate the distance / trajectory of targets bot in direct range and distant peaks to triangulate on maps.
E. LEITZ BINOCULARS WWI FREE
After WW1, in 1921 these rangefinders together with other arms and equipment were supplied by Britain to the Irish Free State (IFS) army as a result of IFS’s support during the great war. This is a WW1 era British Vickers machine gun range finding No 12 MKIII scope with case and 1917 dated tripod. Transit Cased, WW1 British WD Barr & Stroud Ltd Vickers Machine Gun No 12 MK III Rangefinder With WW1 1917 Dated Houghton & Butcher Tripod (Supplied To Irish Free State Army In 1921). The scope is contained in its original green painted hard fibre fitted case which has a padded hinged lid, webbing strap fastener with brass buckle and webbing shoulder strap with brass buckle. The brass scope retains its original green paint. The frame also has another indistinct cast number. The frame is crisply marked 'Periscope No.14A MK III x10 OS 676 GA Regd No 8611' highlighted in white. The shield is attached to the frame by riveted leather straps.
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The scope has its original leather lens cover attached to the frame and sun shield which clips to the frame when not in use and attaches to the viewing lens by bayonet type catch when in use. It has an adjustable graduated eyepiece with Bakelite eye cup. The scope itself measures 17” overall without handle and is 29” overall with its screw off wood handle attached. Sn 18196:17 - 18196:17Īn excellent British WW2 dated Brass Trench Periscope. Dienstglas, E.Leitz / Wetzlar 6x30 M H/6400 Binoc.Cased, British WW2 1945 No.14A MK III x 10 Brass Trench Periscope By HGP With Sun Visor & Screw Off Wood Handle.Foggy Day On The Bay with USCG Patrol Boat.Swiss Bicycle Infantry / Schweizer Radfahr-Soldaten.The case snap is the US type "lift the dot" style, where the German type would be a spring tensioned type latch like th e type used on the German Gas Mask Canister in the previous post. leather case is nearly identical to the correct German issued case that would have come with the binoculars. Each eye piece is calibrated and focus individually. There is a range reticle-scale in the right hand lens of the binoculars and the barrel cap is marked " H/6400" indic ating the rang e scale and " M" for metric. These glasses are standard field binoculars ( Dien stglas), that were used widely by German military field soldiers in all theaters of the war. In 1941, Germany started using three letter codes f or th e manufactures, instead of the complete names, so that the enemy would not be able to tell where the equipment was made and then bomb the factories. Leitz / W etzlar pr ior to February, 1941. Military from an u nknown date, but fit the German Binoculars perfectly. I bought the case here in Port Townsend, at a yard sale, a year or two ago, for a couple of dollars.
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As I recall, I paid ab out $5.00 for them. T he furn it ure was refinished and re-sold, and the "junk" ended in the "store" at CHEAP prices. The family primarily bought out old estates f or the ant ique furniture, but often ended up with lots of "junk" that went with it. The store was called Voses and was a family run business. I picked these up in the 1970's at a very cool, and very funky, junk store up in the little Northern California mountain community of Cohasset. Here is a set of early WW2 German military binocu lars.