[ATM] [Fwd: Re: Question about an old military surplus telescope]

[Jeff Rowe]

David
M-17? See link below and scroll down, is it the one?

> http://www.glennview.com/optic.htm  


Cheers
JR


David Nicholls wrote:

>Some decades ago I bought a battered old ex-military telescope at an 
>auction.  I'm pretty sure it was military surplus from WWII (the sort 
>Edmund Scientific sold into the 1960s).
>
>It's made mostly of brass (painted khaki), has a large Erfle style 
>eyepiece, a ~1" achromatic objective and uses an Amici roof prism to 
>bend the light through 90 deg.  It was designed to bolt onto something 
>(probably a tank). It used to have a rubber eyeguard but that's long 
>since gone.
>
>Does any one have an idea what the model number was for this? (M-something?)
>
>DN
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