u/basaltgranite

These distant images won't answer your question. It might be a hand-knotted rug with wool pile; or a machine-made rug in a synthetic fiber; or something else entirely. Please post detailed, close-up images of the pile surface and an upturned corner showing end, edge, and knot structure. Even that won't necessarily get you a definitive answer. It might allow an educated guess to reasonable level of certainty, however.

You could also snip out a few threads of pile in an unnoticible location. Then burn it. Does it smell like burned hair? Probably wool or other protein fiber. Burned paper? Probably cotton or other cellulose fiber. Burned plastic? Definitely a synthetic.

A "repair shop" would cost 5 or 10x the value of the bin. If the problem is inside the bin, then the bin has reached the end of its service life, and OP is in the market for a replacement.

Pentax dropped the Ashai branding in ~1980. I'd guess these are at least a decade older than that.

The leather strap is probably original. I usually replace leather straps with modern straps in case the leather has gone brittle over time.

Coatings are films deposited on the surface of lenses and prisms to increase light transmission. Coated bins are much brighter than uncoated bins. If you see a slightly bluish or yellowish reflection from a lens, that's a coating.

If the optics are clear and the moving parts all work properly, these should be good birding bins.

With vintage Japanese bins, the ocular bridge (which is the piece you're holding in your hand) is attached with a screw at the bottom of the hollow hinge. If that screw came loose, the ocular bridge can fall off just like you see here. To fix that, you'd take off the cap that covers the tripod socket on the objective end of the hinge, pass a small screwdriver down the hinge, push the ocular bridge back in place on the body of the bin, and tighten the screw.

Recent bins don't always observe that convention. If so, I have no idea how this particular bin was assembled and no idea how to fix it or even if it can be fixed.

A complexity is that this bin is a "zoom" (variable magnification) bin. The zoom mechanism, usually on the right side of the ocular bridge, needs to pass the zoom adjustment to the other side. Those systems vary. I'd ordinarily say that a broken zoom bin is unrepairable as a result of zoom mechanics. If so, you're in the market for a new bin. I'm reluctant to say this because you like this bin, but standard advice for people shopping for bins is to avoid zoom bins in favor of fixed magnification bins, partly because zoom bins have durability issues.

Both are good candidates for being the only two living jazz musicians who have non-zero visibility outside the specialist jazz community.

I called my sister. She barely knew Wynton's name. She'd never heard of Herbie. Sample of one has no statistical significance.

The Wynton haters here are welcome to share details about their 40 year recording and performance careers, their major label associations, and their numerous gigs as leaders and sidemen.

You evaluate "fame" from the perspective of normal people, the general public, not that of a jazz head. Your mom might have heard of Wynton. She probably never heard of Herbie or Pat. If she knows Branford, it's because she knows his brother Wynton.

Wynton to his credit is one of the best jazz trumpeters who ever lived. Many of his records are very, very good. He blazed the trail for all the other Young Lions who followed him and dominated the music in the '90s and '00s. His loud-mouth opinions generally came well after he established himself as a first-tier musician. Wynton deserves respect even if he clouded his own reputation by becoming too vocal about jazz history.

Knowing where in the world you found them would be a useful clue. Granted, bins are portable. That said, the military issue bins I've found in the US have all been US military issue.

FYI, commercial GPS receivers shut themselves off over 59,000 feet or over 1200 MPH. That would never happen on a passenger flight (and if it did, you'd have bigger issues than lack of location service). It would happen if you tried to use an ordinary GPS receiver on a guided missile, however, which is the purpose of the limitation.

If you're pardoned, you can't incriminate yourself. Your 5th amendment rights go bye-bye. You're still on the hook for perjury. A pardoned person can be dragged in front of the public and drawn and quartered.

If you get a pardon, you can't incriminate yourself. Pardon wipes out 5th amendment privilege. It doesn't wipe out post-pardon issues like perjury or contempt of congress. Pardoned people can be dragged in front of the public and drawn and quartered.

The Heriz design is a classic. It works well in any decor from an Abe Lincoln cabin to a high-street mansion. This isn't an Iranian Heriz. It should be priced accordingly. If the seller bought it new a few decades ago, they might be remembering the retail price paid then. You're not buying it at retail, and the market has considerably softened between then and now.

Osprey have gone South by now. If you make a living eating fish, you don't dare stay far enough north to risk having rivers and lakes freeze over.

Red tailed hawks have been making a living eating rodents since long before people were here to build roads. Rodents are there whether or not people are there.

Never heard of it. Is it any good? /s

We'll need the back corner picture to be positive of ID. I'll predict that this carpet was woven in India with a pattern adapted from an Iranian Heriz. It's fairly recent, meaning maybe 30 years old. Dimensions would help with price estimates. If my guesses are correct, in a private-party transaction, it might be worth about half the price you quote.

You're welcome.

Edit: I'll occasionally post to introduce some variety here beyond "what is it?" and "what's it worth?".

For Ellington at Newport, you want the late '90s CD remastered by Phil Schaap. He found a second mono tape recorded for the Voice of America, then digitally synched it with the Columbia tape. Two mono tapes from two microphones equals true stereo. It sounds great. Paul Gonzalves had played his famous long solo into the VoA mic by mistake. The CD includes the VoA source, so he's not off-mic anymore. Schapp also restored the concert to its full length and running order. The CD also includes the studio re-takes that were passed off as concert tapes for all earlier releases. Buying vintage vinyl for Newport would be misguided.

Nah. William Henry Harrison. He got a lot done in his 31 days in office.

No. I doubt it's 30 years old. A picture of the entire rug would be helpful. I'll leave the ID question to others.

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Polychrome selvage, Khamseh vs. Heriz.

It's a detail you see from time to time. I have a ?50s? Heriz with a similar multicolor selvedge. Maybe it was a way to use stray bits of yarn. Maybe it was a way to add visual interest and show pride in craft. A lot of the local weaving details dropped out when weaving became more commercialized. End and edge finishes were simplified to save cost and time. I haven't looked for this feature in new rugs. Chances are some of the the antique repros do it.

On this Khamseh, ~1/3 of the polychrome selvedge is original. I replaced the other 2/3rds so that the edges would be safe. I duplicated the color sequence based on surviving original selvedge yarns. Matching colors with available wools isn't easy. The new yellow is a bit bright to my eyes. There's a little ripple along the edges that should drop out when it relaxes a bit.

Your post of your Khamseh double-dog-dared me to post my own, a double pole medallion chicken rug.

I'd bet the conventional distinctions between named types often blur in reality. Any given rug might be an unambiguous example of its "type." It's sisters three villages north might be in continuity toward the next northern "type." People like having a single name for things. The instinct to create a clear taxonomy doesn't always fit reality very well.