Maker: Unknown

Year: 1750 c.10

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: England

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 44

Sources:

Cocquyt, Tiemen. "400 Years of Telescopes". Zeeuws Museum, 2008. Item 14.

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.69. # 48.
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. 78. # 44.

Public Notes:

"English telescope. Main tube covered with tortoiseshell. Four drawtubes covered with green marbled leather, richly tooled with floral motifs, stars and crescents (almost identical to the preceding telescope). Brass curved fittings and protective slides. Unsigned. Presumably mid-eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1300

Length (closed): 390

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: leather, paper, tortoiseshell, brass

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