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Zeiss (Ger) Rifle Telescopes 1921-1926

17 pages, 8 1/2" x 11" glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print from a poor photocopy. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated. This is a 1921 catalog with a 1926 price sheet. The factory apparently reprinted the catalog for several years after the introduction.

This is a quote from a helpful customer: "1921 (first year for Zeiss) with a 1926 price sheet, date says effective 1.1.26 but the new updated variable power scope models Zeilmulti and Zielmultar are listed came out in 1922/23 calendar year. You will see that the price sheet is missing the Zeildovier and Zeildosechs which were mostly discontinued in 1922 with only 6 others made from left over parts. The Zieldosechs was made in 1924 and only 1 was made. This is also why your catalog has the Zieldovier and Zieldosechs pictured and offered for sale but missing from the price sheet. Not sure if you know Zeiss dates all their catalogs. Page one is dated USA 8-1-1921 and page 2 has the Zeiss plant dated 1920 and on the bottom right the page is dated again in German with a W or VV.1.21. The last 2 digits are always the year. I have not deciphered all the other roman numbers, letters and number yet. On page 3 they talk about why they have introduced Zeiss hunting scopes to the market. What they did was to keep reprinting the old catalog but all Zeiss catalogs have a taped in supplement for that years pricing."

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