Maker: Unknown

Year: 1725 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 97

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.101. #100.

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.103. #97.

Public Notes:

"Presumably Italian telescope. Main tube covered with green coloured leather with gold tooling. Nine pasteboard drawtubes, covered with marbled paper. Ferrules and end pieces made of wood. Length 58-255 cm, Ø 6.5 cm. Unsigned. First half of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 2550

Length (closed): 580

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Objective type: singlet

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

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