Voigtlander Binoculars S Series Of Numbers

Voigtlander Binoculars S Series Of Numbers

As you can see from your own two heliars, this small series of numbers was used for many years as evidenced by the changes in style of the lenses and housings.

I was surprised and delighted to get the big No.

SN62208 as the Vade Mecum seemed to indicate that a group of serial numbers between 58000 and 65000 had been withheld for prototypes or something.

Then when the all brass early style script one at No.

I really wanted it to come to Tonopah So who else has got some of the first year or two Heliar lenses Shout out BTW.

If anyone has a empty barrel with an aperture Id sure love to hear from you.

The Euryscop is probably more valuable than the Heliar though.

I dont really expect to ever find one, but there must be barrels laying around from lenses that got put into shutters right.

I am sure that something means that these numbers were presented to the American Voigtlnder Organisation for use on American engraved lenses.

I think that this means that the usual SN registered date information doesnt work with these USA Heliars How rapidly would they have used up all these 7,000 numbers.

Later ones had some sort of improvement in astigmatism.

Charley.

Dr Miethe left in 1899 to work in Berlin, leaving Dr Hans Harting to lead the firm until he retired in 1909.

Collinear sort lens (omitted 55-61,000) Some of the omitted lenses in fact occur in the Voigtlnder Collection, so possibly this block was reserved for prototypes.

But it does include the Triple Anastigmat below and just could be used for these lenses made under license.

Others seem to occur from Voigtlaender New York as explained above.

About 1900 the business became a limited company.

Triple Anastigmat (Cooke ) Heliar lens produced.

And here is the paragraph about New York; The Voigtlaender and Son Optical Co.

New York, USA. This seems to be the USA branch agency selling equipment, but there do seem to be some interesting features.

Firstly, the serial numbers seem to occur in the omitted group at No55-61,000, which may actually be one set aside for New York.

They do seem to be original Braunschweig items, but the engraving seems slightly different as in: No57,09x Telephoto Collinear No4 The Voigtlaender and Son Opt.

Co., New York No62,43x No2 Voigtlaender Dynar 4 34inch in a Wollensak automatic shutter USPat.

No58,86x Heliar 4.5141mm Voigtlaender Son, New York.

As noted above, these numbers appear on the US labeled voigtlander lenses (US labeled, made in Germany).

My guess, based on a seeing quite a few of these, is that the US numbers cover a range of lenses from early 1900s through the early 20s.

One thing that Im quite certain of, the US series of numbers, especially the later numbers (above 60,000), do not correlate with the numbers from the non-US voigtlander lenses (those with Germany markings).

Because of this, its really hard to assign a manufacture date to them.

For example, I have german lenses in the ser range of 100000 - 150000 that appear similar in styling to US lenses with ser in the range of 62000-63000.

Tim.

Voigtlander Binoculars Serial Numbers