WWII German Binoculars

[cipherk98]

At least in the US I seem to mostly find those with the leather case, like my pair was. The bakelite case is super cool, but no idea of value. My pair and I believe most sets I encounter have the area above the "6x30" scratched off. I seem to recall my examples having "dienstglas" marked elsewhere, or maybe mine didn't have what was above it as vigorously removed, I'll try and locate pictures. If the optics are clear they are still perfectly good binoculars, I still have a post war set made by Zeiss Jena to similar spec that are my beaters.

[bigduke6]

Some pics below regarding the straps and two different makers of the binocular, the Zeiss are as light as feather compared to the Busch ones ??? Deinstglas I was told by a German speaking collector was a rough translation to "Military Optics" ?? as mentioned in a previous post a lot I've seen have this scrubbed out, also the eagle and swastika......

I'm not up on prices but German stuff in the UK does demand a high premium, the two pair's I have were very cheap due to condition etc...... the inside on one pair were in need of a good clean and came out perfect, the other needed a lens re cementing. Main reason for these are for kit to go along the German Sniper rifle I'm building (long term project) the case was £50 two years ago at the W&P show.

[browningautorifle]

Some pics below regarding the straps

There we go. A quick disconnect for the belt loops.

[Flying10uk]

but German stuff in the UK does demand a high premium,

There is a militaria fair that I go to a couple of times a year in the U.K. and a German dealer always comes over with a large amount of interesting German WW2 kit, including binoculars. The trouble is none of his stuff has a price marked on it, so you have to ask the price, and I know from asking the price of items previously, that whatever the item is, it is going to be expensive and out of my budget. The funny thing is, I've never noticed him sell much to anyone else either.

[bigduke6]

At the Birmingham International there is a dealer who deals in just German stuff, in the last 10 years I don't think his stock has had any considerable changes........