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Message: <blockquote data-quote="edz" data-source="post: 1524189" data-attributes="member: 44073">RE: discussions above about BOSMA. There are a number of binoculars on the Bosma site that are sold as well known brands of astronomy binoculars. I've seen models carried by Apogee, Celestron, Fujinon, Oberwerk, Garrett, Zhumell, AP, APM, TS, and on and on. A number of them have previously been identified as manufactured in Kunming China, and are therefore known to be NOT manufactured by Bosma. It is known that Kunming is a center consisting of what we might refer to as a co-operative; several factoriesall working for the same co-op, supplying numerous wholesale distributors. It wouldn't suprise me to find out that Bosma is a member of a similar cooperative and that not all of those products shown are manufactured by Bosma. One thing is for certain, there are at least a half dozen different models of binoculars shown there that are distributed by no less than 3, maybe 4 different Chinese "factories". Well, 3 or 4 different "factories" are not all making the exact same binocular. However 3 or 4 wholesale distributors, all belonging as members of the same cooperative, could all be selling the same binoculars under their "factory" banner name. edz</blockquote>