Deraisme Binoculars
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
label: associated date
content: 1914 - 1918
name: label: maker
content: Deraisme
notes: label: Description
content: This is a metal instrument covered with black leather that may date from the World War II period. The eye end of the left prism housing is marked “DERAISME / PARIS” and that on the right is marked “MILITAIRE / 8 x 30.” There is a center focus, and fine adjustment on each eyepiece.
label: Description
content: Adolphe and Edouard Deraisme were making field glasses by the 1890s and prism binoculars by 1906. An advertisement from 1902 stated the firm specialized in instruments for military use, and many of its models had been adopted by the principal European armies. The firm was still in business in the 1950s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
label: associated place
content: France
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: Optics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN82752W58
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Binoculars
label: Object Type
content: binoculars
label: Other Terms
content: Binoculars; Equipment, Individual; Army
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 5 in x 3 in; 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm