✅ SOLVED some kind of optics?

[cellerfeller]

I am really stumped on this one. I have had this little boxed set for years - came from a local university. They look like some type of optics - do they go in a microscope or something? The little one has a glass window in the side. The bigger one has a red dot under a round "window". Sure hope someone knows what they are!

 

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[Tony in SC]

Does look like an eyepiece? Maybe a set for changing the magnafication?

 

[Retired Sarge]

Maybe turrets from a rifle scope.

 

[Almy]

I was a microscopist at a university. This does not look like a part of a microscope. Maybe a surveying transit or a navigating instrument for a boat? The larger one does look like it fits on the eyepiece of some instrument.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Transit parts was my guess too.They used to come in that style of wood box,maybe try Keuffel&Esser i believe was a popular brand of transit.

 

[xaos]

Yes, transit dials....

labels on the wooden box would be helpful

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