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Spyglass round section brass and leather focus 3 extensions 1850

$1,313.64

£981.57

€1,100

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A$1,984.95

CHF 1,044.80

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About the Item

Round-section brass telescope with leather-covered handle and three-extension focus, complete with sunshade extension and dust cover tabs. English manufacture of the mid-19th century. Good condition, crack on the leather of the handle, fully functional and complete with custom-made wood and brass base plate. The last photo is the gift box. Maximum length cm 54 - 21.2 in, minimum cm 16 - 5.9 in, focal diameter cm 3 - 1.2 in. To bring the scope into focus, you have to stretch it all the way out and then slowly shorten the last stretch, the smaller one, until the image is in focus. According to legend, one unspecified day in 1608 the children of Hans Lipperhey, who was an eyeglass maker in Middelburg , were playing in their father's workshop with lenses. When one of the sons put a concave lens next to his own eye, holding a convex lens in his other hand, and reaching out his arm in the direction of the tip of the cathedral bell tower he looked through it, he saw the wind-marking rooster at the top grow larger and closer. Immediately showing the phenomenon to his father, he fixed the lenses on a plank to make observation easier, thus creating the first rudimentary telescope. Unfortunately for Lipperhey, however, when he submitted a patent application for this instrument to the states general, within days other Dutch eyeglass makers also claimed the invention.

Dimensions:
Height: 21.2 in (53.85 cm)Diameter: 1.2 in (3.05 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass
Period:
Mid-19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1850
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Milan, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1020246064542

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