Accession No

0873

Brief Description

refracting telescope, by Benjamin Martin, English, circa 1750

Origin

England; London

Maker

Martin, Benjamin

Class

astronomy; optical

Earliest Date

1750

Latest Date

1750

Inscription Date

Material

paper (pasteboard, paper); organic (horn); metal (brass); glass; hide (vellum); wood

Dimensions

length 247 mm; max diameter 38 mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from T.H. Court, Harrow, England, on 13/06/1938.

Inscription

‘B: MARTIN
LONDON’ (stamped on 3rd drawer)

Description Notes

3 drawer, hand-held refracting telescope. Pasteboard body covered with brown/black grained paper (fishskin?). Bound with horn rings at both ends. Object end has threaded brass ring fitted in horn, with screw-in brass cell for O.G. with sliding cover. Green vellum covered, pasteboard draw tube, bound with horn rings at ends. Erecting eyepiece, lenses in wooden cells. Brass eyestop with sliding cover.

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