Can Anyone Tell Me What This Is Off?

[blogs]

Hello,

Can you tell me what it is or what it could be?



Closer view at text:


Any information with regards to this would be helpful, sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place.

Thank you
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[smellie]

It's a scope.

First World War.

Company that made it are more famous for their true "periscopic" prismatic sniping scopes, but it appears they made this one, too. This is the first of this type that I have seen, friend, so I really can't tell you much. These just do NOT grow on the bushes in my part of the world.

It SHOULD be fitted to one of my Great War Lee-Enfields, but I KNOW that I can't afford it.

Incredible find, by my lights.

Congratulations, friend!
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[Peter Laidler]

It's got no turrets/drums Smellie so it wouldn't do your No1 much good unless there was a bulky external range mechanism. Not a good idea in my opinion! I thin it's a telescope from a cannon or something big, with a set of eccentric rings in a cradle that allows you to zero it

[smellie]

Quite aware of the problems with turretless scopes, as I have an 8x Bausch & Lomb Balvar turretless. Wonderful optics but a PITA even with those Divinely-inspired Redfield mounts; you can only zero for one range, even using shims.

Likely your idea is far closer to the truth. I really like the idea of eccentrics in rotatable mounts. Wonder if anybody made up something like that to fit the SMLE...... I know that some of the German mounts were definitely strange by our thinking today; you get that when a technology is in its infancy. Likely, though, the technology would have been better-developed for the big guns.

Hmmm..... I just happen to know where one of Fritz's 10.5s is hiding.....
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[Surpmil]

If is about 2" in diameter and has a circle and dot reticule or something similar, it is probably a WWI aircraft gunsight as used by the pilot to aim his forward facing Vickers guns.

Further details such as those would help.

[blogs]

Hi again, some pictures to show size and also scope view:

Size:


Size 2:


Scope view:



Edit: Google Search on Vickers brought up a similar one...

This is very similar to it but for the fixings and coloring: http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/proje...on/flying-se5a - 2nd Picture on the page


Thanks to everyone thus far for trying to help, much appreciated.
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[45B40-95B40]

smellie,

Quite aware of the problems with turretless scopes, as I have an 8x Bausch & Lomb Balvar turretless. Wonderful optics but a PITA even with those Divinely-inspired Redfield mounts; you can only zero for one range, even using shims.

Bausch & Lomb rifle/shotgun telescopic sights and their mounts were made in Rochester, New York, which is about ninety (90) miles from where I live and about thirteen hundred (1300) miles from where you live. The H. E. Gibbs company, located in Amsterdam, New York, which is about one hundred twenty (120) miles from where I live, currently sells a wide variety of mostly new Bausch & Lomb rifle/shotgun telescopic sights and their mounts. I’ve never done any business of any kind with the H. E. Gibbs company, but here’s their website:
H.E. GIBBS

RALPH VAN BUREN
(45B40-95B40)

[Surpmil]

Your photos settle it in my mind: WWI AC gunsight for certain. Looked through one at an antique & collectibles show a year or two back. Should have bought it really as it was only about $75. CAN.

(The REL Telescope, Signallers was $750. that had to stay where it was!)