- Subject
- Telescopes
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Benjamin Martin
- Provenance
- Purchased from Dr. Reginald S. Clay with his collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- "B:MARTIN LONDON"
- Object type
- Telescope
- Inventory No
- 90307
- Accession Number
- 1944-1/part
Description
Pasteboard body, covered with black leather, 4 draw tubes with green vellum, lignum vitae objective mount, brass objective cell with sliding cover, horn ferrules, brass eye-stop with sliding cover.
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