TELESCOPES
An early 19th-Century lacquered-brass transit telescope,
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An early 19th-Century lacquered-brass transit telescope,
signed on the 22½in. (57.2cm.) long body-tube Troughton & Simms LONDON, with rack and pinion focusing, the trunnion mountings with associated cross-bubble level with ivory scales graduated 0°-125° (twice), with two eyepieces, shades, viewing lamp base, and micrometer viewing mount with three pillars and screws for mounting with an accessory, in fitted pine carrying case with two iron swing handles -- 28½in. (72.4cm.) wide
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signed on the 22½in. (57.2cm.) long body-tube Troughton & Simms LONDON, with rack and pinion focusing, the trunnion mountings with associated cross-bubble level with ivory scales graduated 0°-125° (twice), with two eyepieces, shades, viewing lamp base, and micrometer viewing mount with three pillars and screws for mounting with an accessory, in fitted pine carrying case with two iron swing handles -- 28½in. (72.4cm.) wide
See Illustration