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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seawatcher" data-source="post: 1314784" data-attributes="member: 6594"><p>Aha! I recognise those! I used to have a pair, they cost less than £20 back in the late 1980s. Me and my mates had a pair each - they were great back-up binocs or binocs you weren't bothered about trashing as they were so cheap. They have been on salein the past  labelled from various manufacturers / factories. The ones we had were stamped Helios on the cardboard box. We called them GNUS, after what we interpreted the Russian letters to spell. And to add to that name - you could leave them out on the savannah and let a pack of gnus run over them and they would be unscathed. Mine lasted for about 5 years or so - and survived heatwaves, downpours, jam butties, kids, sand, falling off a car roof (more than once), falling out of my bicycle saddle-bag, being left in the garden for a week and more. But total submergence in water was their downfall. I didn't dry them properly and they went mouldy inside. Mine had a distinctive yellow tinge. Supplied with yellow clip-on filters and a leather strap that doubled as a trouser belt. You could use the rainguard to play tennis with it was so strong. I taped mine up with black insulating tape as the paint went all tacky after a year or so of use and they left terrible marks on clothing. Amazed these are still available.</p></blockquote><p></p>