Maker: Ramsden, Jesse

Year:

Year Range: 1762-1800

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Manufacturing Location: London, England

Signature: “Ramsden / London”

Signature Notes:

Inscriptions:

No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 214

Sources:

Project investigation.

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.164. #214.

Public Notes:

"Silver spyglass with one drawtube. Main tube covered with tortoise-shell. Length 16 cm, Ø 4.5 cm. Signed: ‘RAMSDEN LONDON’. Last quarter of the eighteenth century.

Jesse Ramsden worked in London as a self-employed instrument maker from 1762 until 1800" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 160

Length (closed):

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Exit pupil:

Object status:

Objective type: unconfirmed

Optical style

Physical style spyglass

Functional style

Materials: silver, glass, tortoiseshell

Drawtube data:

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Objective Data

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