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    Show us your "vintage" and classic binos

    James Finlayson was a Scottish Quaker who founded Finlayson in Tampere in 1820 in Finland. In effect he brought the industrial revolution there and the factory was the largest employer locally. I think Finlayson still exists. Tampere has rapids or a waterfall, and I think this provided power...
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    Show us your "vintage" and classic binos

    Campbell, Hamburg seit 1816. Principal Dietrich Paulick. Healthcare, sunglasses. May be an opticians. Binocular was not made in 1816. But could be made in Germany? The binocular looks very nice, as does the Tasco. Regards, B.
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    Show us your "vintage" and classic binos

    That is actually a rather small collection compared to the Spira collection and the Naylor museum that I visited in 1989 near Boston. I also visited a lens museum, much larger than the collection noted in the article above. The Naylor collection had about 30,000 cameras and lenses etc, some...
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    Show us your "vintage" and classic binos

    Lichtenknecker of Belgium made 4 element objectives for refractors with perhaps 4 colour correction. Ross made triplet refractors perhaps 1920. George Alcock used a Ross 100mm f/12 triplet. I had a Ross 100mm f/15 triplet. Petzvals have 4 elements. Dating maybe mid 1800s? There were 4...
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    Show us your "vintage" and classic binos

    The large binocular has a forehead rest. There was an Italian Galileo brand 90mm binocular with triple turret eyepieces at auction, but my friend didn't buy this and bought the broken tripod instead. Regards, B.
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