Maker: Patroni, Pietro

Year: 1735

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Milan, Italy

Signature: Pierre Patroni / a Milan / 1735

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 70

Sources:

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument to See Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2009. p.87. #75.

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2013. p.91. #70.

Public Notes:

"Main tube and ferrules covered with black sharkskin. Three green coloured drawtubes with gold tooling and ivory caps with silver fittings.
Length 16-42 cm, Ø 3 cm. Signed on the silver lid: ‘Pierre Patroni / á Milan / 1735’" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013). See LC 69 for similar.

Length (open): 420

Length (closed): 160

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: pasteboard, ivory, silver, paper, rayskin

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