[Finite (John)]

Here's my monstrosity. It's been hidden away behind stack of furniture in the garage till recently. Was hard to get in the photo even with a bit of space around it, only recently it has re-emerged, with the removal of my parents furniture which I was storing for them while their house gets built.

Thought I'd share a pic of the scope. I've had a look at the focuser on it this morning, it is three inch in brass. I noticed it is enscribed with PH Dallmeyer, London. A search on the net shows he was born in the 1800's and moved into making telescopes and other optical equipment, but left his business in the late 1880's to travel, upon his Doctors advice for the sake of his health. He disappeared from a cruise ship off the coast of NZ. But the company continued and then also made military gunsights, of which I think this is likely a part. The viewfinder is also brass and the numbers on it show that it was a gunsight from the 2nd world war.

The maker of the primary mirror for this scope was Graham Loftus, and he was a pilot in WW2. I guess he still had contacts!