

Gone is the “Made in DDR” script, replaced by “Made in Germany,” found on all Zeiss products until 1945. Later that year the company was sold to Docter Optic who continued production of the model but under their own brand. They were manufactured in 1991, after the re-unification of Germany, at the former DDR Zeiss plant in Eisfeld, near Jena.

These binoculars, with their very high serial number, are probably some of the very last Zeiss glasses ever to bear the world-famous doublet lens “Carl Zeiss Jena” Kuithan logo introduced in 1904. Carl Zeiss Jena “Deltrintem” 8 x 30 binoculars serial number 7300856.
