WW2 Royal Navy Officer of the Watch Pattern 373 telescope

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I decided to take apart and clean my late fathers telescope. It is a pattern 373 Royal Navy Officer of the Watch telescope made by Ross of London. It has a National Physical Laboratory testing logo for the year 1940. My father was in the Royal Navy in the late 50’s / early 60’s and I found his name and service number scratched on the barrel inside it so I can only assume that he had it during this time. It’s very battered (I remember playing with it as a child!) but still works and the optics are not bad. It would have originally been covered in leather or resin but that has long since worn away.