A rare burnished steel "Cheselden/Sharp's" eye specula, signed indistinctly PEYPS[?],with crown, burnished steel with brass slider and acorn finial, with semi-circular blades, c.1750 - 5½in.long
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A rare burnished steel "Cheselden/Sharp's" eye specula, signed indistinctly PEYPS[?],with crown, burnished steel with brass slider and acorn finial, with semi-circular blades, c.1750 - 5½in.long
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John Peyps was a cutler and instrument maker at St. Helen's Bishopsgate London, he died in 1760