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 46

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.71. #50.
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. #46.

Public Notes:

"English telescope. Main tube covered with grey ray skin. Three drawtubes made of green coloured parchment. Wooden ferrules. Gold tooling resembling Turner (1966), nos. 20c and 23. Presumably first quarter of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1380

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: parchment, rayskin, wood, gold tooling

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