This one always makes me smile. It has a strange little tray on one of the legs which I removed immediately after purchase. But one day, I came across a few posts by Badback and Bill Griffith some ten years ago. They had an interesting explanation for the tray. This Nipole telescope is what they baptised an Origami telescope. One is supposed to fold the legs upward and put the entire setup in one piece in its chest (that is where the little tray comes in).
Hilarious to think of the engineer who developed the concept. It takes some courage to pack- and unpack the thing.
I cannot find any Nipole telescopes on the www but is a well made telescope. It has the look and feel of the Swift 839 that also lives here: same volcanotop eyepieces, fixed in the same diagonal and in the same tak-manner. Same strange finder bracket. Same objective cell and lens cover. I like the deep blue colour.
It came with a huge chest that was shipped from Indo Altlantic Cape Town to Rotterdam Holland. Somewhere in the sixties, I suppose, no dates unfortunately.
Some pictures: