Plymouthy Adams Posted February 20, 2022 Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 I have here an item located in cleaning up an old outbuilding long back. I will guess it to be an aid for reading maps....the cylinder is approx 2 1/4 inches long and 1 1/8 diameter, it has a screw on magnifier (black cap) and the bottom of the cylinder has a scale grid that is: .001 Ft. (0-50 scale line) .1 m. m. (0-150 scale line) the items does not have a makers mark of any sort and I do not recall this from my Army training days....never was in boy scouts and not a surveyor and could be in left field for all the above. Multiple searches reveal nothing close online. Thanks..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Posted February 20, 2022 Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 It's a scale loupe. Who made it though, I dunno 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted February 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) most obvious, no maker shown as stated, intended purpose, seems no one has a clue.....it is a bit of a mystery with no makers mark to lend a hint...on numerous occasions I have search with nothing close being displayed.... I have a memory of something close to this in an old movie where they were doing news paper layout maybe....it is an odd duck. Edited February 20, 2022 by Plymouthy Adams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eneto-55 Posted February 20, 2022 Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 I vaguely recall seeing something like that in my father-in-law's stuff, and I thought he used it to examine coins (which he collected), but I don't recall ever having seen him use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Hiebert Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 Yes, a loupe. The scale part I'm not familiar with. I have a really good quality one that's made by AGFA, in West Germany. Not for map reading, it would be a bit much for that. Jewlers, coin collectors/dealers, and watch repairers are among those who use them, usually with a head harness. I used mine for inspecting immigration and other identification documents. Counterfeiters can be so good at forging them that sometimes you can only find flaws with a loupe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonaldSmith Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 We used to use a loupe to look at photo slides. Remember? Those films in a cardboard frame that were stuck into a projector, to show still pictures? For sorting the slides, one would put them on a backlit translucent surface, and look through the loupe. Return with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted March 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 this is nothing like a backlighted slide viewer....I still have one of them viewers withing two feet of my left arm as I type this..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg g Posted March 7, 2022 Report Share Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) philatelists loup? Glass rather than plastic? My father used something similar when studying topographical maps, of which he had hundreds. He taught me how to read maps with it his had a small lanyard attached. Could also be for the guys who studied reconascince photos. Edited March 7, 2022 by greg g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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