Maker: Unknown

Year: 1725 c.25

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Manufacturing Location: England

Signature: 5-draw telescope

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 47

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. #51.
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. #47.

Public Notes:

"English telescope. Main tube covered with grey coloured ray skin. Five drawtubes covered with green coloured leather. Gold tooling resembling Turner (1966), no. 23b and ‘roll’ 1 and 2. Ivory ferrules and end pieces. Presumably first half of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: ivory, leather, rayskin, gold tooling

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