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  • #2
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    You will probably get a more knowledgeable response in the Militaria Forum, I'll move the thread there.


  • #3
    Dr Strange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    pm. wrote: »
    hi lads, im thinkin of buying a pair of ww2 binoculars - Carl Zeiss Jena Deltrinem 8 x 30, the problem is i think the pair im bidding on are fake :mad: would any of you guys know by looking at them ? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CARL-ZEISS-JENA-BINOCULARS_W0QQitemZ230298116936QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item230298116936&_trkparms=72%3A1121|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14

    Thanks Hagar ;)



    Hi pm,

    unfortunately, there's not much to go on from the pic and description. Although he mentions that he doesn't know if they are genuine or not.


  • #4
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    Hi pm.

    I cant say for sure if they are fake or not, but what I can say is that I have an identical pair of binoculars, but they aint marked Carl Zeiss, they are marked 'ORBIT', in the same engraved white font. They aint very high quality at all. I'd imagine those bino's are also cheapo ones marked as 'Zeiss' to up the price.

    See any resemblence with the picture I posted? I certainly wouldnt be placing anymore bids on that set, £52 so far seems crazy!


  • #5
    FiSe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭FiSe


    I can imagine, that this is the model used during the war, but we have similar model brown leather instead of black used by my greatgranddad between the wars so this piece could be original WWII as well from the 50's or 60's...

    But it looks too fresh to be a genuine item used during the war by soldier in the field. My opinion...


  • #6
    pm.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭pm.


    CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »
    Hi pm.

    I cant say for sure if they are fake or not, but what I can say is that I have an identical pair of binoculars, but they aint marked Carl Zeiss, they are marked 'ORBIT', in the same engraved white font. They aint very high quality at all. I'd imagine those bino's are also cheapo ones marked as 'Zeiss' to up the price.

    See any resemblence with the picture I posted? I certainly wouldnt be placing anymore bids on that set, £52 so far seems crazy!

    i agree they look the very same i got these instead http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=230298275336 and because its almost my birthday i treated myself to these http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=160288839613

    thanks for the help guys


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  • #7
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    The 1917 ones are nice! Not a bad price either. I got myself a pair of Bino's last week too, a set of German WW1 'Fernglas 08', missing their case though :(, optically very good (once the lenses were given a little clean. I'm beginnign to develop a linking for military binoculars! :P Let us know what you think of them when you recieve them.

    Here's my British WW1 binos:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055368067

    And my WW2 Zeiss binos:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055169849


  • #8
    pm.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭pm.


    CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »
    The 1917 ones are nice! Not a bad price either. I got myself a pair of Bino's last week too, a set of German WW1 'Fernglas 08', missing their case though :(, optically very good (once the lenses were given a little clean. I'm beginnign to develop a linking for military binoculars! :P Let us know what you think of them when you recieve them.

    Here's my British WW1 binos:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055368067

    And my WW2 Zeiss binos:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055169849

    what a great story to go with a lovely pair of binos, i will say 1 thing tho i have a zeiss scope on my .243 and i use zeiss lense wipes as i was told that a cloth could damage the glass on it but you probably have something like them if not i could post you some i got a lot from the us just pm me, ill write back as soon as mine arrive :)


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