Nitsche & Gunther Splatter Guard Goggles

[Lt GUSTL]

Servus from Vienna,

here i want to post some pics from my Nitsche & Gunther Splatter Guard goggles.
Note the marking on the inner right side Nigura
- for NitscheGuntherRathenow.

I guess that due to the bright lenses they were worn by pilots during night flights (Nachtjäger).


kindest regards

 

[BellyTank]

These were "splinter-proof", shrapnel-proof goggles.
The later styles(maybe also other contemporary models) had arms/temples, rather than an elastic band.

They're a great style. Almost ahead of their time.

Nice.


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[Hopalong]

Here's a picture of my small WW II Luftwaffe collection showing the Nitsche & Gunther goggles I had which also had the pictured goggles original marked tin case. I bought the goggles, in fact, two pairs, one with its tin case and one pair loose from a WW II German collector at a local military show who didn't collect Luftwaffe helmets and goggles, for $100, for the loose pair and $200, for the goggles with its tin case, in the 1980's and I traded the loose pair shortly there after for a boxed pair of WW II Japanese Navy pilots goggles. I've been liquidating my WW II Aviation collection of 17 years little by little for the last 7 years which consist of USAAF, U.S. Navy Aviation, Japanese and also my small Luftwaffe collection that I sold a couple of years ago. Mike

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