Description
A nice pair of vintage Carl König Köln 8×30 binoculars, featuring traditional metal Porro-prism construction with textured black body covering and coated blue lenses.
Marked to the prism plates:
CARL KÖNIG – KÖLN
Coated Lenses
8×30
Serial No. 563831
The binoculars have 8x magnification with 30mm objective lenses, central focusing and dioptre adjustment at the right eyepiece.
A particularly attractive traditional German pair of binoculars, suitable for general observation as well as for a vintage optics or binocular collection.
Main Features:
- Maker/brand: Carl König
- Marked location: Köln (Cologne), Germany
- Magnification: 8x
- Objective diameter: 30mm
- Serial number: 563831 (circa 1950s–1960s )
- Optics: Coated blue lenses
- Design: Porro prism
- Focusing: Central focus and diopter adjustment at the right eyepiece
- Size (when open): 165mm (W) x 120mm (H) x 50mm (D)
- Weight: 576 g
Note:
The optics are intact and the binoculars remain fully usable. There is some light internal misting/haze visible when looking through the objective lenses. This may reduce absolute optical clarity slightly, but it does not prevent normal use.
Both objective lenses and the accessible prism surfaces beneath them have been lightly cleaned. However, the eyepiece assemblies have not been opened or internally cleaned. Optical performance may therefore be improved further by cleaning the internal surfaces beneath the eyepieces.
Cosmetically they are in good vintage condition overall, with some light age-related marks, rubbing and signs of previous use to the painted surfaces. The leather body covering is intact.
Please inspect the photographs for more details.
