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UNITED BINOCULAR CO 9043 S. Western, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Importer, stor & mail order retailer. 1954 local area advertisement for retail store. Brands: UNITED binoculars, YOSHIDA binoculars.

MARSHUTZ 418 West 6th St Los Angeles California USA. 1949 Optical retailer Brands: Unknown

UNITED BINOCULAR CO Western Ave, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Importer, mail order retailer. 1952 Advertisement.Brands: UNITED binoculars , YOSHIDA binoculars.

UNITED BINOCULAR CO Importer, mail order retailer. 1953 Ad. Brands: UNITED , YOSHIDA binoculars. “TITAN MIDGET” in this ad

GEORGE MAYERLE OPTICAL CO. 960 Market St San Francisco, Ca. USA. 1922 Advertisement, Importer, distributor. Brands: FATA MORGANA binoculars.

AMERICAN THERMOWARE CO

1972 Advertisement, Importer, mail order retailer. Brand: ATCO binoculars.

MANON Box 1386 Huntington Beach, Ca. USA. Importer, distributor, mail order. 1968 magazine Advertisement Brand: MANON

MANON 1972-1973 magazine advertisement, many magazines Brand: MANON

MIURA TRADING CO LTD ., aka MIURA SHOIJI KK , Marunouchi building,

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, (Japan) was an exporter and trading co, was founded 1946, and was the holder of 1964 US trademark for MANON , and used the brands MANON and SHRINE. Collection of Mark Ohno.

Marunouchi building

For 1950’s Japanese advertisements, particularly for Nippon Kogaku, also see the section. JAPANESE ORIGINS #2

ODEHNAL 680 Brandywine, Washington, DC

1971 magazine ad

Early United 6x15 Binoculars

Fata Morgana Binoculars

Manon 7x15 binoculars

UNITED PRODUCTS C0, 7941 S Halsted, Chicago Il. USA. Importer and mail order retailer . 1949 magazine advertisement. From 1946 United Products was advertising Swiss watches, and in 1947 were advertising war surplus US, UK & German binoculars, and around 1949 Japanese binoculars. From around March 1950 they were selling as UNITED BINOCULAR CO. (see below).