Maker: Unknown

Year: 1675 c.+25

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Italy

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 95

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.99. #96.

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.102. #95.

Public Notes:

"Presumably Italian telescope made of pasteboard. Main tube covered with parchment with (worn-out) gold tooling (e.g. a vase with flowers). Ditto ferrules, end pieces and two caps, lined at the inside with marbled paper. Six drawtubes, covered with marbled paper. Small diaphragm. Length 35-107 cm, Ø 5 cm. Unsigned. Last quarter of the seventeenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1070

Length (closed): 350

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: parchment, pasteboard, gold tooling

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