Sorry for the delay.

Thank you all for the precious information.

I don't know if the Italianicon made scopes used lenses taken from REL No. 42 scopes. I know the lenses on Italian scopes are incompatible with the Britishicon one. I think that Italian lenses were used: the "Filotecnica-Salmoiraghi" and the "San Giorgio" supplied the Army with binoculars in the same period.

Yes, the labour was cheap in the late '40 and early '50s.

I'll see, soon, to put pictures of the other "Italian snipers" and the "Italianized TP".