Kriegsmarine brown binocular case eagle stamp CARL ZEISS JENA opinions please?

[danish dragoon]

Since Jena is a town that lay in the former East Germany/DDR. The leather case would properly had been stamped " Made DDR " just like Carl Zeiss Binoculars, if it had been made after war.

I think the case is prewar made and that matches very good with that early Kriegsmarine eagle stamp.

[nickn]

I should have said between the wars

[glaser]

So it's a commercial case stamped for export to an English speaking country before 1945
So why would the km have stamped it?

That is an excellent question Nick and that is what I am trying to find out with my initial question if any other items have been observed with the same M III/8 stamp!

[danish dragoon]

So it's a commercial case stamped for export to an English speaking country before 1945
So why would the km have stamped it?

I guess the Kriegsmarine brought them from the firm and stamped them afterwards.

[nickn]

So Zeiss made the case between the wars and stamped it with its standard commercial trade mark
Then got an order from an English speaking country so stamped it made in german
But before it could be shipped off the km put in an order and it was sent to them instead?
I have not seen this mark on other km Bino cases

[danish dragoon]

So Zeiss made the case between the wars and stamped it with its standard commercial trade mark
Then got an order from an English speaking country so stamped it made in german
But before it could be shipped off the km put in an order and it was sent to them instead?
I have not seen this mark on other km Bino cases

I guess you have a good point there. It all sounds a bit strange.

[richthofen_117]

I have a pair of zeiss KM eagle marked 8X30 binos together with the brown leather case, there's no "Made in Germany" under the CZJ logo, the eagle stamp is different too.

[glaser]

I have a pair of zeiss KM eagle marked 8X30 binos together with the brown leather case, there's no "Made in Germany" under the CZJ logo, the eagle stamp is different too.

can you please repost your pictures?

[glaser]

Kriegsmarine leather case 7x50 question eagle blc

looking forward to your comments on this stamping on the dust cover of a 7x50 bino

eagle on bino dust cover early N DF 7x50 1x61.jpg

[glaser]

blc + eagle on leather case

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[Martin Simon]

Hi Joe,
Here's a few pictures of my brown leather entrenching tool carrier marked with a very similar KM eagle. Obviously not a German WW2, but maybe a foreign one accepted for use by the KM>
If anyone recognises this type of carrier or knows its origins, please let me know.
Martin

[Martin Simon]

Here a picture of one of my 7X50 gasmask CZ bino cases. Although not the same style eagle as on the one you posted, it appears there is some additional markings underneath the Eagle and M, but too small for me to read properly.
Martin

[glaser]

Hi Joe,
Here's a few pictures of my brown leather entrenching tool carrier marked with a very similar KM eagle. Obviously not a German WW2, but maybe a foreign one accepted for use by the KM>
If anyone recognises this type of carrier or knows its origins, please let me know.
Martin

thx for the picture Martin, post # 26 seems to be exactly the same stamp as in #1

[glaser]

Kriegsmarine brown binocular case eagle stamp CARL ZEISS JENA

Here the missings pics of WAF member richthofen_117 in post # 22


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[AndyC]

Here is Eagle and Carl Zeiss markings on my Gasmask case




Andy