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Description: | This non-achromatic Galilean telescope has a dyed rayskin (shagreen) barrel and a single leather draw tube that is decorated with gold-tooled motifs. The mounts are made of turned horn while the other fittings are silvered brass and include sliding objective and eyepiece lens covers. Stop lines on the draw tube indicate the optimum working length of the telescope.
Focal Length: 9".O.G.diameter: 0.4". Gold tooling decoration.
caption: Pocket telescope | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Gold tooling Rayskin (shagreen) pocket telescopes Galilean telescope | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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