Vintage Voigtlander Binoculars (1 Viewer)

Hi. I appreciate that this is my first post on this forum but I am desperate for help and I know there are vintage binocular experts on here.
I have acquired this pair of very old "late 1800s" I think, and would like some information. There does not seem to be much online that goes back so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated. There is a magnification mark on one eyepiece which reads 0X I presume this to be 10X and the 1 has worn off.
Oh and value if possible. There is a case which once was beautiful but is now a bit poorly.
Thanks.

DUNKS, post 1,
The shape of the binocular shows that Voigtländer still could not pass the Zeiss patent from 1894, so it will have been made somewhere between 1894 and 1906 (if the Zeiss patent still was a factor of importance in 1906, if so the binocular could be from some years later than 1906, but not very long). The samples I have most frequently seen were 8x20 porro's.
Gijs van Ginkel

It may be an export model, as it says No. not Nr.

Hi Dunks,

DUNKS said:

I have acquired this pair of very old "late 1800s" I think, and would like some information. There does not seem to be much online that goes back so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Not that I'm any kind of an expert, but I just found this interesting but slightly awkward-to-browse site on Voigtländer:

http://www.schoebels-voigtlaender-archiv.de/

On this subpage, there is an advertisment from 1907 showing some prism binoculars, including one pair that looks very much like yours. Unlike yours, it seems to bear the "new logo", as the site calls it:

http://www.schoebels-voigtlaender-archiv.de/Bild0204.html

This subpage notes that prism binoculars were introduced by Voigtländer around 1904, and shows a pair with the serial no. 8674, not very far from your pair's:

http://www.schoebels-voigtlaender-archiv.de/BildL.html

The webmaster has a contact address here:

http://www.schoebels-voigtlaender-archiv.de/kontakt.html

Just write him an English email and attach photographs of your binoculars, I bet that will pike his interest Note that he states "no value estimates for cameras", so perhaps it would be best to start off with asking for help with the date and model.

Regards,

Henning

Hi,

Binastro said:

It may be an export model, as it says No. not Nr.

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Back then, it was not uncommon to use of the Italian "numero" in German. I'd guess it had been introduced along with other Italian accounting terms.

The 1907 Voigtländer advertisment on this page also uses "No." to refer to the "Prism Binocular List No. 71":

http://www.schoebels-voigtlaender-archiv.de/Bild0204.html

Regards,

Henning

Voigtlander

Thanks guys that's just what I wanted.