- Subject
- Optical instruments
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Dollond
- Provenance
- Purchased from Dr. Reginald S. Clay with his collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- "DOLLOND / LONDON" stamped on draw-tube.
- Object type
- Opera glass
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 58mm Height: 96mm Weight: 154g
- Inventory No
- 30001
- Accession Number
- 1944-1/part
Description
Opera Glasses with wooden and pasteboard main body, covered in green fish scales and red leather(?) Ivory eyepiece and lens rims. With green fish scales-covered pasteboard and paper case with red/pink velvet(?)-lined interior. Round ivory tag with "545" on a wire.
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