Back to Clavs note a couple back stating '.........but it would be kind of romantic to imagine compasses still being issued with wartime manufacture dates.' The nostalgic theme still holds good in the Instrument world Clav with the old and now pretty well obsolete Binoculars, Prismatic, No2 Mk3 with 1944-45-46 dates still in service. We've still got them here and I saw a pair hanging around a paratrooper SF Machine gunners neck in Af-stan some months ago. Long did they reign..................