I was told by the guy I bought my Stevens-Pope Ballard from that the scope #625 was a first year scope. He collects and rebuilds all kinds of vintage external adjustment scopes, and seems pretty knowledgeable on them.

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I've bought and sold several Fecker scopes and currently own four, a 6X, 8X and two 10X.  All are mounted on BPCR big bore or .22LR rifles used for silhouette competition.  They are well made with excellent optics.  Since none are marked with the magnification (power) a new buyer has to typically rely on an educated guess by the seller.

There are a couple of relatively easy ways to measuring magnification.  Click on the link below and page down in my article to the section titled, Measuring Scope Magnification (Power) which follows a photo of a couple of Fecker scopes.

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Wayne

The 8x Unertls used in sniping are marked USMC Sniper or USMC. The Lymans used in competition are marked USMC property or USMC. I have never seen a Winchester A5 marked with USMC. I guess it could be. ???? On the 1903 Springfield FB page, Andrew Stolinski, moderator might have some paper work. My scope does not have a serial number. I have seen pictures of case with notes in the cap referencing adjustments. It makes a nice story.
I served in Corps in Nam and I am a gun guy. A new guy at work (Southwestern Bell) asked me if I was really a sniper. He had been drinking in a bar with an older coworker. The coworker told him I was a sniper in Nam and not to mess with me. In reality I was a grunt radio operator working as a forward air controller.  "No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” ( The man who shot Liberty Valance)

A fairly common accouterment in Europe in the past, when it was an accepted protocol to carry one's scope detached from the rifle, in a leather tube, to be attached if time and circumstances allowed for its use. I have a couple of them I picked up in a gunshop in Frankfurt and one of them is long enough to hold a Fecker Small Game scope or my Lyman 5A.

For what it's worth, written with some kind of stylus on the leather strap of my case is "FOR POPE RIFLE"; and, sure enough, that's what the scope and case came with.

Bill Lawrence

I believe Fecker used Winchester A5 scope rings. I think by the time Winchester sold their scope business to Lyman Fecker had designed his own rings, and didn't buy rings from Lyman.

Winchester scope case 1910 catalog not in 1909,