Maker: Unknown

Year: 1775 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 99

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.103. #105.

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. #99.

Public Notes:

"Presumably Italian telescope. Main tube covered with red paper, painted with floral motifs. Three pasteboard drawtubes, painted blue. Ferrules and end pieces made of horn. Unsigned. Length 35-85 cm, Ø 4 cm. Unsigned. Late eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 850

Length (closed): 350

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: horn, paper, pasteboard, paint

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