OK, bare with me.....as we continue to 'sort out' our new home, things are coming to light. I should point out that just prior to passing away, F-in-L signed up for British Gas's free home insulation program. This involves cladding the entire house in a thermal 'coat', however Government legislation does not permit altering the front of the property, as this would remove the varied architectural differences in houses and leave millions of non descript boxes. To this end the front must be insulated internally, this requires all front rooms to be cleared 6 feet from the windows to allow removal of skirtings, radiators, electrical sockets etc... This has not been a problem....until we got to the 'box room', over the years this became the tip. A room 9 feet by 6 feet containing a huge 4 drawer chest full of bedding and curtains, a filing cabinet, several book cases and a spare dining table. Add to this, the walls lined with shelves full of books plus the boxes from TV's, video recorders, CD and DVD players...because something may go wrong and you need the original packages........put simply, you couldn't get in the room. Fortunately we have a spare back bedroom three times the size, after much grunting and cursing we moved everything.....and now to the point, the last thing in the room was a table under the window.Having cleared the boxes and magazines and books off it I found a leather case, I remember F-in-L showing me this before, his old army field glasses. They're brass and stamped with the War Department arrow, which is also evident on the leather case. F-in-L told me of 'looking through these at a Japanese patrol while directing artillary fire' the results were, as he put it "satisfactory". I then nearly gave myself a hernia moving the object in the lower image, this was under the table. It's a galvanised steel box 27 inches long, 14 inches wide and 13 inches deep and it weighs about 90 pounds. I assure you the contents are non lethal but quite astounding........I shall post photos once I can make a bit of room to open this up, for now all I'll say is " this knocks those field glasses into a cocked hat " and I think the field glasses are damn cool........