Puckerings has dated this piece to the 1910s.
They were manufactured by A. Franks Ltd. Manchester.
They have integral sun shades which when extended, the fully opened binoculars measures 6 7/8" in length when closed up they measure 5" x 2" x 4 1/2". The leather case measures 5 1/4" x 2 3/8" x 5 1/2".
A. Franks Ltd was an Optician and Instrument Maker
(1879 - 1950)
Founded in the latter part of the 19th century by Louis Aubrey Franks (b.1854), they traded originally as 'L.A.Franks' from 95 Deansgate and later 2-4 King Street, Manchester. Listed as a manufacturer of photographic apparatus, optician and scientific instrument maker.
Following a bankruptcy in 1879, a new firm was formed soon after, an optician trading as A. Franks. Another partnership between Aubrey and Benjamin Franks was also dissolved in 1897.
A Franks would continue to trade until 1950 from various addresses including 2 King Street, 44 Market Street and branches in the 1920s at 73 Oxford Street, 44 Market Street, 12 Victoria Street, 3 South King Street and 20 Bradshaw Gate.
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