Nedinsco 10x50 for rangefinder swedish

[Mikedenmark]

I got this one recently.
Nedinsco 10x50 for a rangefinder.
Used in sweden.

I haven´t been able to find anything on this model at all.
Probably from around 1930.
No visible serial number anywhere.

4 different filter settings: clear, yellow, more yellow and plain orange.
And an odd looking little window at the bottom.
Light into it does not illuminate the reticle. But there may be something wrong inside.

[Mikedenmark]

more photo´s

R.Kik means Riktkikare. direction binocular
3M.Stereomät means 3 meter stereomätare aka 3 meter stereo rangefinder.

[Mikedenmark]

More photo´s.
The reticle is not shown complete. There is also a circle around the cross. Impossible to get with the camera and optics I have at hand right now.
And an odd thing. The view through the optic is not round, it is oval. Probably due to the way it is constructed.

[Binoswede]

Nice find!
I guess you found it in Sweden to, as you usually do...
Never seen that modell before.

[Mikedenmark]

I did get it in Sweden, yes.

And I have just spent two hours on the web trying to find details on swedish 3 meter rangefinders.
Plenty of 4 meters, but so far the only hints on 3 meters are a Wild design and a purportedly 3 meter used at helsingborg 2 days after the german invasion of Denmark on april 9th 1940.

For those interested in bunkers, it may be noteworthy, that within 2 months of the german invasion, bunkers with 15 cm artillery were ready for action outside Helsingborg.
To go from not planned at all, to combat readiness in two months sound to me like a world record in fast bunker building.

But no details on what 3 meter rangefinder it was.

[Mikedenmark]

Another update from the swedish national archives.
There was a 3 meter rangefinder in the swedish navy M/26.
Used in the tower on at least one major swedish wessel.
Given the nature/design, this binocular is likely to belong to that model rangefinder.