Maker: Unknown

Year: 1675 c.+25

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: France

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 92

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.102. #102.

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.101. #92.

Public Notes:

"Presumably French telescope. Main tube and ferrules covered with dark leather, richly gilded with fine gold tooling, with a lace pattern, that is used on both French and Italian telescopes. Three pasteboard drawtubes covered with green coloured leather. Compound eyepiece with three lenses. Wooden end pieces. Unsigned. Maximum length 65 cm, Ø 5 cm. Last quarter of the seventeenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 650

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: leather, pasteboard, wood, gold tooling

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