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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 441950, member: 54&quot;]Good work, glad you looked more.&nbsp; The USNavy had a program (maybe copied from UK? ) where they asked civilians to loan binoculars during the war, which were to be returned to the lender afterward.&nbsp; I’m guessing that’s how these got the government property marks.&nbsp; A distinguishing difference between civilian and made-for-military binoculars was the optical path, including prisms for military, and the straight-through path for ones like yours.&nbsp; Prism-types came into use about 1900, I just learned, here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binoculars" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binoculars" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binoculars</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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