binos 6x30 "blc" never seen before

[alexbraun]

hello everybody
i ve find these binos
it s reticulated but the reticule is like a cross its goes from center 8,16,24 the last is 32/16
in front of the binos you can screw
please look at the photos
many thanks
alex

[Sgt Bilko]

Hi there,
Certainly unusual - at first I thought someone had modified them by adding big oculars to the objective end (which wouldn't really work anyway) But, on looking at Seeger's grey book, it appears they were made this way in January 1944 His German description says "zusätzliche objektive fokussierung" which I read as "additional objective focusing". From a batch of 50, they've got to be really rare. Certainly the first I've seen in my life of collecting - well done!

[MAUSER99]

my first thought is they were legit. Very plain and non-descript. Kriegsmarine issue as there is no dienstglas on them... Glad to see no one spruced them up with a large eagle/M on the other plate..

[juoneen]

with deinstglas mark

Here's a set of 7x50's

[MAUSER99]

those are a different animal. But odd and unique in their own right.. A 7 digit
serial # blc marked with a smaooth body and painted silver ? This usually only shows up on late 5 digit rln marked 10x50's !
This is a first for me... Hope others chime in.

[benutzer]

well known this binos

[Sgt Bilko]

Nice one - two brothers side by side! What was the point of this idea - and were they KM use?

[Mikedenmark]

At what distances do they work?

Reason I ask, I have a couple of english 6x30 with modified objectives, for use, as far as I can see, at about 20 meters.

My guess is, mine are for air traffic control use. On those large vertical maps where you see a map and all observed planes on.

[Sgt Bilko]

I have a WW2 era British made 6x30 marked "Bore Sighting" which was meant to have been used for checking big guns. But the objectives were "normal" and it focuses on infinity as a normal binocular. Of course - this was in the days when money was no object. Nowadays our troops would be lucky to see a binocular. In Iraq they even had to buy their own boots!