- Subject
- Telescopes
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Dollond
- Provenance
- Purchased from Dr. Reginald S. Clay with his collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- Instrument: "DOLLOND LONDON" Attached label: "505" Attached label: "N - ach 36 C1720-60"
- Object type
- Telescope
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 34mm
- Inventory No
- 63262
- Accession Number
- 1944-1/part
Description
English Terrestrial Telescope, consisting of pasteboard tubes covered with green fishskin and green vellum; brass mounts. A non-achromatic telescope containing two draw-tubes and an erecting lens system in the eye tube. It is unusually slim, and is a rare example of the early work of the Dollond family, made before they introduced achromatic lenses in 1858.
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