WWII Bino's

[CINDERS]

I picked these up the other day 1943 Taylor - Hobson 6x as out of the ones currently on line these ones appeared to be the better value.
Though not cheap they are in very good to excellent condition.
The rt set has a small like lint item very low in the view but does not impinge on the general view through the prisms.
They came with their tag and tropical canvas holder for them, did I get a good purchase.

After I adjusted them to suit my eyes the view is crisp and sharp as are the stadia lines in the Rt hand side which superimposes on the general view when looking through them.
So my basic question were these part of the CES for a sniper and could/were they used by a spotter to call the fall of shot for corrections. (Did it match the scope turrets)

The other set I saw and still for sale is A. Kershaw & Son they look rather ratty and used are 1941 vintage reasonably cheap as well.
They are from the same maker as my No.32 Mk III on my T.

Thanks in advance for replies.

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[RCS]

Do not have anything modern but pick up these old J.H. Steward (London) binoculars to go with my Uberti Colt 1851. I did the conversion to cartridge around 2011, it is chambered for the 38 S&W cartridge( hollow base lead works really well)

The Steward binoculars are not worth much but go well with the cartridge conversion

[Surpmil]

Almost never seen in that freshly overhauled condition, at least not round these parts.

Is that a dent or the "half Broad Arrow" on the Steward binos?

[CINDERS]

Hi Surpmil its the shadow produced by the lighting from the Rt. Thanks for the reply, so a good buy then you'd say.

[Surpmil]

Hi Surpmil its the shadow produced by the lighting from the Rt. Thanks for the reply, so a good buy then you'd say.

Would depend on what you paid! Have probably seen ten or so pairs of TH serviice binos offered in the flesh over the years and don't know how many online, but all I can remember were heavily used and mostly dirty, so hard to get a sense of how good the optics really were.

What do you have you can compare them to?

Reference to this half Broad Arrow was for this pair actually:

[Flying10uk]

The other set I saw and still for sale is A. Kershaw & Son they look rather ratty and used are 1941 vintage reasonably cheap as well.

If you can look at them in person and the optics seem reasonably good then they are probably worth having if the price is right. I wouldn't not buy them just because they are not cosmetically pristine. I have several pairs of 6x30 No2 binoculars and none look as good as the pair you have just bought.

The worst pair of binos that I have ever purchased was a pair of 7x50 naval binoculars off eBay. You could see nothing through one side and a hazy yellow mist through the other eye-piece. The vendor did give me something back after I complained and no he hadn't stated this slight defect in his listing.

[RCS]

To answer Surpmil post #5, it is a dent

[Riter]

Commonwealth snipers used the collapsable telescope. There is a photograph of an Australian sniper whose spotter/observer is using binoculars. I think a soldier in the field would use what they could get including captured enemy optics (binoculars).

[Peter Laidler]

We were using those 6x 30 binos until about 10 -15 years ago. We'd occasionally see Mk2's too. There still seemed to be spares around too. Certainly in use in Malaya and SVn era. Good, hard wearing, reliable, tough as old boots. I still keep a pair of then, grat removed and classed as Binos, Observing No2 in my day-sack

[CINDERS]

Thx Peter if I may ask you the stadia marks in the prism set up do they correspond to the turrets on the Mk 32 scope that the spotter could use to say correct the snipers fall of shot onto a target/enemy.

Appreciate your reply.