yes, I saw that and that why i think it is odd. Maybe someine kept old baseball cards or comic books in the box and the transit was left somewhere else. just jokin but maybe you shpuld ask how this got to ebay.
but it looks like it can be cleaned up with no problem.
I never saw the K&E place in Hoboken but I do remeber their Newark factory. As a young kid riding into Newark on Hwy 21, it always caught my eye from the car because of the oddness of the names painted large on the brick facade.
Thus could have been where they warehoused their other products for A/E
Army surplus K&E mountain transit
Dave, save your money and wait for an Army-surplus K&E mountain transit in good condition. The Army model (at least the one I found at a junk store near Ft. Hood) ca. 1951 came with all the usual stuff, but included:
- spare reticle (in a tin stored in a leather pouch inside the box),
- spare bubbles (in a fitted wood compartment inside the box),
- right-angle eye-piece and solar filter (also stored inside the box),
- telescope fitting with small mirror for reticle illumination (on the other side of the sun shade, inside the box).
The Army model has a solar circle in the reticle and is engraved "U.S.", but appears to be identical in other respects to the civilian model. The box was painted olive drab, but was the same oak plywood that K&E used, stained and varnished, on the rest of their mountain transits.
Army surplus K&E mountain transit
I just got outbid.
My maximum was 125 which is as high as I'm willing to go given the apparent condition of the instrument.
It sold for 177.
The winning bidder is a new bidder who jumped in with 9 seconds to go.
He is welcome to it at that price.
high school math