Maker: Unknown

Year: 1700 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 45

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.70. # 49.
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. # 45.

Public Notes:

"English telescope. Main tube covered with green gilded leather. Eight pasteboard drawtubes covered with white parchment. Wooden ferrules and end pieces. Gold tooling resembling Turner (1966), nos. 2, 7, 11 and 23. Unsigned, but resembling a telescope depicted on the 1729-Scarlett trade card. Presumably first quarter of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1930

Length (closed): 550

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: leather, parchment, pasteboard, wood, gold tooling

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