Details
An early 19th-Century three-draw vellum, paper card, horn-mounted telescope,
stamped on the red-stained outer body-tube OLIVO VENETIA, the outer body-tube with silver decoration of scallops, foliage, wreaths and flowers, the eyepiece with brass dust slide (damaged), the object glass with similar slide -- 32.3/8in. (82.2cm.) long extended, 13in. (33lcm.) long closed
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stamped on the red-stained outer body-tube OLIVO VENETIA, the outer body-tube with silver decoration of scallops, foliage, wreaths and flowers, the eyepiece with brass dust slide (damaged), the object glass with similar slide -- 32.3/8in. (82.2cm.) long extended, 13in. (33lcm.) long closed
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