Maker: Unknown

Year: 1725 c.25

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: England

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 43

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.69
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. 77.

Public Notes:

"English telescope. Main tube covered with grey ray skin. Three drawtubes covered with green marbled leather, richly tooled with floral motifs, stars and crescents (almost identical to the preceding telescope). Ferrules of ivory with brass fittings at both ends. Length 66 cm, Ø 3.5 cm. Unsigned. Presumably first half of the eighteenth century" (Louwman, and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 660

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: ivory, leather, brass, gold tooling

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