Accession No

0258

Brief Description

spyglass/prospect glass, 1750-1800

Origin

Maker

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1750

Latest Date

1800

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); hide (morocco leather); fishskin (shagreen); glass; organic (horn); wood

Dimensions

length 64mm; diameter 36mm; object glass diameter 33mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from J. Whitaker, Cambridge, on 11/01/1926.

Inscription

Description Notes

Shagreen covered wooden body. (Body lined with paper (?) on the inside?; 19-1-2000). Brass mounts. Single draw tube of horn (wood?; 19-1-2000) covered with tooled morocco. Brass eyepiece. Sliding lens covers over eyepiece and objective. Screw-on objective.

Condition: good.

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