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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 340693, member: 360&quot;]Hey dude. </p><p><br /></p><p>Repairing that broken piece in the photo is going to be next to impossible. Unless you can find an identical pair with matching parts, I&#039;m honestly not sure what you&#039;re going to do with it. I&#039;d say that it&#039;s probably bakelite, celluloid or possibly ebonite (hard-rubber), although by the 1920s and 30s, ebonite was becoming rather old-fashioned. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, ebonite turns brown as it gets older. I see no evidence of that. Whereas, black celluloid will generally remain black forever (unless it&#039;s damaged by sunlight or something). </p><p><br /></p><p>It certainly looks to be of 20th century construction. I&#039;d say 1930s or 1950s. </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of the opera glasses I collect are MUCH older than this but what I generally do is pull them apart, clean the threads, blow out the dust, clean the lenses, put them back together, and put a drop of oil on the major moving parts and that&#039;s about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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