T blc 7x50 H, Nr 660

[dragnet]

Spent a few hours yesterday going thru Waf threads and there does not seem to be much info on these blc marked binoculars Any help would be great
p.s. may i add that when i bought them i knew that the end plates had been repainted as a former owner went digging for an eagle

[richthofen_117]

Spent a few hours yesterday going thru Waf threads and there does not seem to be much info on these blc marked binoculars Any help would be great
p.s. may i add that when i bought them i knew that the end plates had been repainted as a former owner went digging for an eagle

Here's the link about your blc marked 7x50H model:
http://www.binoculars-cinecollectors...html#7x50HblcT

There should be a eagle on the right prism plate.

[richthofen_117]

I have a eagle marked 7x50H binos with CZ logo, which are similar to yours:

[dragnet]

Thank you for your comment, as mentioned no eagle as a previous collector went digging on the plate looking for an eagle, the plate has been repainted after this vandalism

[dragnet]

In your link the bottom set are the ones like mine, same markings and no mention of eagle and numbered 969

[Sgt Bilko]

no mention of eagle and numbered 969

Scroll up and you'll see the KM Eagle etc...

[dragnet]

no mention of eagle and numbered 969

Scroll up and you'll see the KM Eagle etc...

Cheers, didnt realise it was the same set, anyway these have no eagle markings

[Sgt Bilko]

Neither does my Zeiss marked pair. There are instances of them being used by army officers - maybe all weren't KM issued?

[Sgt Bilko]

Hitler Sepp Dietrich (far left), commander of the SS-Leibstandarte, near Warsaw during the German invasion of Poland - note the guy in the middle with a 7x50H (or Septar).

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos...re-id541064579



Is this the same pair Deitrich holds here later in the war?

http://larsgyllenhaal.blogspot.com/2...waffen-ss.html

[Mikedenmark]

if photo´s are dated correctly, then it is not the same pair. Upper covers are worn on the early photo. Not on the late one.

But, it is odd, exactly that model pops up twice next to Dietrich.

[Sgt Bilko]

Well spotted - I didn't notice.

[dragnet]

So members opinion has these as army use👍

[nickn]

Does it have a reticle?

[dragnet]

Does it have a reticle?

Nick, not sure🙄, will have to check tomorrow👍

[Mikedenmark]

dragnet.

I cannot really see we agreed they were used by the army.

Similar bino´s are occassionally seen on photo´s, in use by army officers.
Nothing suggest a general use in the army.

We migth as well say the Führerhauptquartier was isssued with these. Several photo´s of Hitler on his Norway trip in 1937 (?)on board a warship, shows him in leather coat, wearing Porro II bino´s.
Someone probably just handed him a Navy bino.