VINTAGE 1960S ATLAS COATED 8x30 JAPANESE BINOCULARS NO 99955 IN ORIGINAL BEIGE LEATHER CASE GOOD WORKING CONDITION

A POST WAR MID TWENTIETH CENTURY ATLAS COATED 8x30 JAPANESE MADE BINOCULARS IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION. COMES IN ORIGINAL BEIGE LEATHER CASE. IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION.
 
This 8x30 binoculars magnifies to eight times its size and has a 30mm diameter of the objective (front or larger) lenses.
 
This high quality binoculars was most propably made by the Maiji Seiko Company ca. 1970's in Japan. Atlas brand binoculars was named for the Greek god Atlas, the Titan who supported the heavens on his shoulders.
 
With the Atlas anti-reflective coating which reduce the light reflected from lenses, thereby increasing the light transmitted through the lens, you get brighter images than with binoculars with uncoated lenses. 
 
MARKINGS:
ATLAS COATED
8x30 Field 7.5 degree No 99955
JAPAN ON THE HINGE AXIS WITH EXPORT NUMBERS JE33 ON ONE SIDE AND JB85 ON THE OTHER SIDE. (J AT FIRST GLANCE LOOKS LIKE AN A WITH HORIZONTAL LINE)
Various Japanese manufacturers like Omori Sogo, Meiji Seiko, Tokuhiro, Akebono, Tochihara, & Tanaka and others produced huge numbers of binoculars in different brand names.
Binoculars with a JB code on them like ours post date the US occupation period from 1952 to 1959. "Most Japanese binoculars from the 1960s and several decades later, carry one or two tiny marks on the body, about 2 mm in height, frequently adjacent to the hinge axis on the rear, between the objectives.  'JB' and two or three digits identifies the manufacturer of the finished binocular, and 'JE' identifies the maker of the body.  The J symbol has a small horizontal line extending from the middle of the J, and features on all binoculars manufactured for export in Japan since November 1959."
 
SIZE: 15CM WIDE

CONDITION: BINOCULARS APART FROM A FEW SCRAPES IN GOOD CONDITION. OPTICS STILL VERY GOOD AND EASY TO GET IN FOCUS. LEATHER CASE TOP COVER LOOSE AND STRAP BROKEN.
 
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