Maker: Unknown

Year: 1850 c.

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Japan

Signature:

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Inscriptions:

No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 258

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.190. #260.

Public Notes:

"Japanese telescope. Black lacquered main tube made of cedar wood, with three black lacquered drawtubes. Rich gold tooling. With protective caps and wooden casing. Length 47/124 cm, Ø 8 cm. Unsigned. First half of the nineteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1240

Length (closed): 470

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Object status:

Objective type: unconfirmed

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Functional style

Materials: wood, lacquer, glass, gold tooling, horn

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