I picked this up for $50 on fleebay.
It is a late 60s or early 70s Tradewinds scope. They imported Husqvarnas and sold this scope. It is from West Germany and is a 1.5-4 power. It looks familiar. Who do you suppose made it? Doesn't look like a Pecar. Kinda looks Zeiss but I doubt that? Maybe Hendsoldt? It does look like a Nickel Marberg or the later Hertel & Reuss? What do you think? The center diamond dot has come apart. May or may not affect function but I'll probably have someone put a new reticle in it if I can, or try it myself.

It doesn't look like anything I've got. Nickel Marburg usually got the clicks from an external flat spring and most of the main names had a sloping eyepiece.

S&B made a lot of scopes under different names, but those I've got have the sloping eyepiece, too.

Hertel & Reuss were making their own scopes in the '60s (and for others, eg the Weatherby Imperial) but often have the elevation and windage under the same turret - a dumb idea as they sometimes get stuck together.

What's it like to look through? If it is clear and has that minimal tunnel vision of old German scopes, it might have been a good buy as you got it at a for-parts price.

Assuming it is reticle-movement, it might be a good, tough scope. Using Burris Universal mounts and Signature rings it is easy to get the reticle centred, using the eccentric plastic inserts. The inserts can also be lapped out to take a 26mm tube.

It's a pity about the dot. If it stays where it is you could rotate the scope anti-clockwise 90 degrees (a la Nickel) and use the bit that's moved in place of stadia. It may drop off under recoil, of course. I had a bit of crap get on the wire in a Unertl Hawk but after a while it fell off again.

Is there a yellowy tinge to the view? That is something that can happen to some lens cements over time. I've noticed it in a couple of old S&B and Kahles scopes.

The scope came today and it is brilliant! really clear an distortion free to the edges! remarkable! I want to find someone to fix the reticle and use it on an vintage gun with an extra set of detachable for backup scope.

Glad to hear it. If it is reticle-movement, you probably won't need a back-up scope but another, modern, scope in rings similar to those I mentioned could be set up to zero without moving the left(?) cone screw. They can be made completely detachable by pinning one cone screw and having a lever on the other - but a coin in your pocket will only take a moment longer.

Authentic claw mounts, on the other hand, could cost more to install than the price of a new rifle.

Replacing the reticle may be the rub, and the only place I see modern scopes ahead. With the old scopes you generally have to remove the erector set, which will be fixed firmly, and then get at the reticle ring. With modern scopes this stuff will all come out together in half the time and be a lot easier to put back.