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I was recently contacted by Vincent from The Netherlands....who acquired a Polarex Model 136E...a 5 inch Polarex on a field tripod. Both Unitron and Polarex were manufactured by Nihon Seiko in Japan. This is only the third field tripod mounted 5 inch Unitron/Polarex scopes I have located to date. Complete information on the scope is located on his excellent website: https://polarex.jouwweb.nl/.

Highly recommend you check it out!

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Dave
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Thank you for the information Dave :)
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Oh man! What a great find! And great for the scope to be found!

A real beauty! Now I need to put my latop down, get up and go get a napkin to wipe the drool off my chin. :lol:

Thanks, Dave!
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Just beautiful. Everytime I see one of these scopes it sends me back to my childhood when I seen them brand new and was an object of desire(still is!)
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Alpena67 wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:15 am Just beautiful. Everytime I see one of these scopes it sends me back to my childhood when I seen them brand new and was an object of desire(still is!)

That is one hell of a signature you have there
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Beautiful scope 😍
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