Accession No

0448

Brief Description

spyglass/ prospect glass, mid 18th C.

Origin

Maker

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1725

Latest Date

1775

Inscription Date

Material

hide (vellum (?)); organic (horn); paper (papier mache); glass

Dimensions

length 74mm; diameter 46mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from T.H. Court on 05/03/1929.

Inscription

Description Notes

Vellum (?) body. Orange stains with guilded tooled decoration. Horn mounts. Single draw tube of papier mache with vellum (?) cover stained with green marbling. Horn eyepiece. Screw fit eyepiece and objective.

Condition: fair.

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