Help identifying scope, tripod and gun case

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  1. Overthehedge

    Overthehedge Member

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] Hi all,

    Looking for some information on this scope and tripod please, any idea as to age or rough price? Can’t find anything identical online anywhere!

    Maker is Lawrence and Mayo (on there very faintly)

    It’s also in this gun box which obviously isn’t original, can’t also find anything similar case wise either! It’s William Evans (box in picture)

    Many thanks in advance

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  3. Overthehedge

    Overthehedge Member

    Overthehedge, Aug 20, 2019
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    i need help Moderator Moderator

    You’re Welcome, I resized them. Many people don’t like to click links. Someone will be along to look at your gun. Not my thang. :hilarious:
    Welcome to the Forum! :)
     
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  6. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    that's a big scope with a lot of wear and tear but the leather is still on it so someone must have cared for it well...

    It must have a small field of vision , far down the road....but I'm not seeing a gun connection....unless an artillary or sniper spotter...

    @Shangas .....
     
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    i need help Moderator Moderator

    That may be my fault. I assumed it was gun related since OP was also asking about a gun case. He never said the scope was gun related. Sorry! :)
     
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  8. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    That's ok....I can't see the case well enuf to say it's a gun case..
     
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  9. Michael77

    Michael77 Well-Known Member

    Overthehedge, Does the lens have any windage or elevation markings etched onto the glass? If it does it's possible a spotters scope? Looking at such a short tri pod I would think it would be used in the prone position?
     
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  10. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Because of the type of tripod, I assumed it was a surveyor's instrument, which is one of the things Lawrence & Mayo make.
     
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  11. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Michael77's good point about tripod being suited to someone working in the prone position does lend support to a military use.
     
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  12. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    my thoughts too.... prone & in the field....look at those spikes..this wasn't sitting on a table at a gun range !!

    but I'm only speculating as this is a little out of my purview .....no pun intended !!! ;)
     
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  13. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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    1880 3 draw refractor ........spotter......... ( unverified ! )
     
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    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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    Oh I see, so the scope itself may not be angled? That’s a cover and lens holder? More photos might help.
     
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  17. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    signaling stands ww1....

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    A RARE First World War Teesside artillery officer’s telescope and tripod has turned up at a Guisborough military shop..



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    British Army WW1 MKV Signalling Telescope Tripod.
     
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  19. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    trench tripod
     
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  20. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    It's nice, but I doubt I'll be of any help here.
     
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