WWII Soviet sniper trench periscope....

[desert drifter]

I found this at a local antique mall. It is a soviet TP4 scout/sniper trench periscope. It is dated 1945 but I doubt that it seen any service at all. It is real nice condition, clear optics. It has ranging reticle. It is built like a tank and would make a good last ditch weapon. It also has an adjustable occular that can be focused.











I guess my mind is slipping some. I've been looking through it holding it verticle..thats the way I look at things. The image in the periscope was correct, the way it should be with top on top and bottom on bottom. I went to look around a corner expecting the image to now be rolled over...the side of the image to be on bottom and the top of the image to be on the side...

Nope! to my momentary amazement the image was still correctly oriented. Should have known better but you can forget what you learned in college physics class in 40 years or so.

Interesting novelty I guess.

'drif

[Junk Yard Dog]

Looks like a night stick

[jeremyb]

thats cool. there was a few of those on ebay a while back.. there were going for too much or I would have got one.

[WeldonHunter]

Nice.

[Jumperwire]

thats cool. there was a few of those on ebay a while back.. there were going for too much or I would have got one.

Very nice. I wanted one of those and saw them on Ebay as well. A guy in Colorado and a guy in Poland swapped weeks, selling them......and both adds said "rare" They sure had a bunch to be that.
Still I want one to add with my sniper collection. Why? Why not. That is a neat find you have there. Antique Mall? Who'da Thunked

[desert drifter]

thats cool. there was a few of those on ebay a while back.. there were going for too much or I would have got one.

Very nice. I wanted one of those and saw them on Ebay as well. A guy in Colorado and a guy in Poland swapped weeks, selling them......and both adds said "rare" They sure had a bunch to be that.
Still I want one to add with my sniper collection. Why? Why not. That is a neat find you have there. Antique Mall? Who'da Thunked

Interesting...I wonder if the Colorado guy put one in an antique mall.....

'drif

[Jumperwire]

IIRC theirs were all post war. The WWII dated ones went close to $200 I've seen them all over in price, until I wanted one.

[desdem12]