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A 19th-Century 4-inch refracting telescope,
signed on the stand ROSS LONDON, the 44¾in. (113.7cm.) long body-tube with lens hood, dust cap, starfinder telescope, rack and pinion focusing, the extension body-tube engraved ROSS LONDON NO. 45771, raised on a tapering pillar supportwith alt-azimuth quadrant adjustment, tangent screw motion, raised on a brass and mahogany tripod stand, the tapering square-section legs with triangular base terminating in brass castors, with three separate tripod legs for table mounting, body extension tube and other accessories, in the original fitted pine case -- 56in. (142.2cm.) long
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signed on the stand ROSS LONDON, the 44¾in. (113.7cm.) long body-tube with lens hood, dust cap, starfinder telescope, rack and pinion focusing, the extension body-tube engraved ROSS LONDON NO. 45771, raised on a tapering pillar supportwith alt-azimuth quadrant adjustment, tangent screw motion, raised on a brass and mahogany tripod stand, the tapering square-section legs with triangular base terminating in brass castors, with three separate tripod legs for table mounting, body extension tube and other accessories, in the original fitted pine case -- 56in. (142.2cm.) long
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