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WORLDWIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLEWW1 Vintage Edwardian PeriodLeather CasedPrism Binocular Power = 8 ByRoss Ltd111 New Bond Street & 31 Cockspur StreetLondon EnglandCirca 1916This is particularly nice pair of early Ross Prism Binoculars in very good vintage condition. Serial number 28783 dates them to around 1916, they are marked with makers details and model. The central arms are marked W.J.Lodge who would have been the original owner.
The leather work is good and much of the original blacking is intact, the lenses give a surprisingly clear and sharp imaging for this type of optic and age, the leather case is in lovely firm condition also bearing makers details within.
A highly desirable and rare item, would make a fine addition to a serious collection.
Andrew Ross (17981859) founded his company in 1830, from 1840 he began producing camera lenses signed “A. Ross”. During Andrew Ross’s lifetime, the company was one of the foremost lens manufacturers. After Andrew’s death in 1859 his son-in-law John Henry Dallmeyer left the firm to establish his own optical company in 1860 and the company was run by Ross’s son, Thomas, and became known as Ross & Co. By the 1890s was also making Zeiss and Goerz lenses under licence for sale in the UK and the British Empire. Ross patented a Wide Angle lens design and Zeiss took this further to produce their EWA Protars, before World War 1 Ross and Zeiss worked quite closely together, but at the outbreak of War the British Government put Ross in control of the newly opened Carl Zeiss binocular and optical factory in Mill Hill, London.
Category: Cameras and Photography:Telescopes and Binoculars:Binoculars and Monoculars
Location: Woking
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