Identifying Japanese pair of Binoculars
Article about: Hi Please can you help a new member, I’ve enjoyed having various military binoculars over the years and have just picked these up, problem is I can’t find much about them on the internet, my
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To start, you've assumed they are Japanese. What are you basing that on? Anchors and stars are very common symbols internationally. The Japanese navy used an anchor with a cherry blossom, not a star.
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As the only thing I could find were a Pair sold on EBay what said Japanese. They could be Italian, Spanish I just don’t know. I just want to know if anyone can identify them using the marks.
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Welcome Mickey,
Your binoculars are postwar Japanese. There were a dizzying array of postwar makers marks on optics. Wartime military binoculars will feature army or navy inspection marks on the hinge cover plate, the part circled in red.
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Thanks for confirming Japanese, as long as there not modern fakes there ok.
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