- Subject
- Optical instruments
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- E. Nairne
- Provenance
- Presented by Frank Sherwood Taylor.
- Primary inscriptions
- "NAIRNE / LONDON" stamped on side of second draw tube.
- Object type
- Opera glass
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 45mm Height: 105mm Weight: 106g
- Inventory No
- 22362
- Accession Number
- 1941-9
Description
Perspective or opera glasses with pasteboard tubes covered with green fish skin and green vellum; copper alloy mounts. In pasteboard cylindrical case with black leather(?) exterior and velvet and paper interior.
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