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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Bombadil" data-source="post: 3182341" data-attributes="member: 33331">I recently "found" one of those.  In the bottom of my optics box in my closet.  I moved about 3 years ago, after about 2 years of preparing for the move.  Sometime a few years ago, I put several of my binoculars, scopes, and astronomy gear into a box and nearly forgot about it.   I finally got around to going through those boxes and came across my Nikon Kogaku 7.3* in near new condition.  Serial number puts it most likely from the early 70s.  I can't even remember how I acquired it, probably about 15 or more years ago.  Most probably I picked it up at Eagle Optics, which is just a few miles from me.  They used to take trade-ins and had a lot of used binos.  I know I picked up a used Leica 7x20b and a used B&L Custom 10x40 there, at very good prices, back in the 90s.  Perhaps I got the Nikon too.  I still have a Bell & Howell WA 10x50 that I picked up there for around $25 and stuck it under the seat in my Corolla.  It's still there (I've had the car for 18 years).  It was tough to resist buying those used, very good condition binos.  The B&H reeked of smoke, I had to wash it down a half-dozen times with Lysol and hung it in my garage for 6 months.They still take trade-ins, but only if the bino is worth $250 or more.  Ah, I miss those bargain basement deals.</blockquote>