Zeiss Logos and Dating Binoculars
The Company Seven site has a page that outlines the Zeiss company history at:
http://www.company7.com/zeiss/history.html
(and both the page and the following diagram have been referred to in previous BF posts)
The page provides some basic information about logos and more usefully also a ‘Christmas Tree’ diagram of the logos used:
- the top 5 markings were used until the end of WWII (the first binoculars were introduced in 1894 and used the logo in script, second from the top)
- the left hand side then shows logos used by Zeiss East Germany (as Carl Zeiss Jena etc.)
- the right side shows those used by Zeiss West Germany (as Carl Zeiss etc.), and
- the bottom 4 logos date from the reunification of the company in 1991, following on from the reunification of German in 1990
n.b. not all of the logos were used on binoculars e.g. several were only on photographic products
Zeiss has also recently posted information about their logos at:
https://www.zeiss.com/corporate/int/about-zeiss/history/the-zeiss-logo.html
The logos date from 1906 on (so not the earliest logo used on binoculars)
The page lists in chronological order some of the logos along with dating information, and expands on the use of the logos in the post-WWII era
I’ve downloaded the page in 3 sections: from 1906; from post-WWII; more recent
As Henry indicates, based on the P marking and the logo that predates the change following reunification, Galazie’s model should be between 1988 and 1991
John