Soviet Survey Instruments
Anyone familiar with this (it’s coming up at an auction on Friday)?
I collect cameras and I know after the war the Soviets disassembled portions of the Zeiss works in Jena and relocated them to the Soviet Union (primarily Kiev) and produced copies of Contax cameras and Zeiss lenses.
They also reverse engineered other western camera brands and made copies of them (with varying degrees of quality control). But I didn’t know they did it with survey instruments and this looks suspiciously western.
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