Maker: Unknown

Year: 1700 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 94

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. #101.

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. #94.

Public Notes:

"Presumably French telescope. Main tube (length 20 cm) and caps, covered with Bordeaux red leather with gold tooling. Four pasteboard drawtubes covered with green leather. Maximum length 64 cm, Ø 5.5 cm. Unsigned. First quarter of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 640

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: leather, pasteboard, gold tooling

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