The original black leather case with embodied logo E.Leitz Wetzlar and 1940. The plates are marked: Left - 7 x 50 beh (T) KF and production number Right - M, N 21788 and is engraved swastika. The binocular is rather light - 1185 grams, by its measurements: Height - 167 mm Width - 180 mm. The body was built from alloy, covered with black leatherette. Stephen Rohan pointed in his book: This model is often photographed on U-boats, but was also used on other Kriegsmarine vessels and by the coastal artillery.
The binocular was manufactured for Kriegsmarine.Īs Dr. Gustav Heyde Dresden Telescope Carl Zeiss Jena - 6x24 zinc model 03. Later, in 1970 the Company became a part of the Veb Carl Zeiss Jena. Leitz are still in business today.User Agreement, Privacy, Cookies and AdChoice Norton Secured - powered by Verisign. In 1864, Ernst Leitz took over the firm founded in 1849 by Carl Kellner, in Wetzlar. Towards the end of the war, shortages forced manufacturers to use substitute materials such as compressed cardboard. Both had instructions incorporated into the lid on use and maintenance of the instrument. They came with a leather case which was designed to attach to webbing. They were manufactured from 1903 to 1919. Like the Galilean WW1 08 Pattern field glasses, the prismatic 03 Pattern binoculars were produced during the war by several major optical firms such as Leitz, Goerz, Zeiss et. On the bottom left prism housing is engraved 11 UMGE, presumably a unit abbreviation. On the rear of the top right bridge is stamped the letter K, indicating it was inspected and accepted for service by the Military Armaments Inspectorate at Spandau, Berlin. On the right prism housing is E LEITZ WETZLAR. I have read somewhere that UF is Unteroffizier Fernglas, or NCO’s Binocular. On the left prism housing is the designation DF03 and Dienstglas UF, with a serial number 2392. My Christmas present, a pair of WW1 03 Pattern binoculars by E Leitz of Wetzlar, with a leather 03 Pattern case marked CP GOERZ BERLIN, so obviously the binos and case are a marriage, either from during the war or later. Leitz (Wetzlar) DF 03 6x24 Binoculars WW1
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