Miniature spyglass telescope with boxwood case

Made:: 1725-1735. in England

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Miniature spyglass telescope, 1-draw red leather tube, with tooled gilt decoration and horn lens mounts with boxwood cylindrical case, probably English, unsigned, 1725-1735.

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Category:: Optics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1983-149

type:: telescope - terrestrial, telescope - galilean, telescope - refracting and instrument case

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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