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Message:: [QUOTE="Shangas, post: 234441, member: 360"]Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus - Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon. There B, your words of wisdom. Unfortunately I can't help you until I know what it is you need help with. Le Jockey Club de Paris is a French horse-racing club which, I believe, is still around today. They were prolific manufacturers of racing binoculars like these. The body of the binoculars are clad in leather, either Moroccan, or Shagreen. These would date to the early 1900s, somewhere between the end of the Victorian era up to the 1930s I'd say, or possibly the late Victorian era (1880s-1900). The problem is that the same styles of binoculars and opera glasses were made for decades and decades and decades. A pair made in 1860 is basically the same as a pair made in 1920. Unless there's some specific information (a date, or a very distinctive style, a famous maker), they're almost impossible to date. The body is brass, heavily plated in nickel. That's all I can really tell you, unless you need to know something specific. Here's my pair of Jockey Club binoculars... <img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e4/c5/e9/e4c5e93713929b077f3bdc6acfbf76f3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> As you can see, they're not exactly rare.[/QUOTE]