Lot 230 A
230 A
A ¾-inch, five-draw, vellum and card-bodied telescope, with turned fruitwood eyepiece and mounts, the body-tube with tooled-decoration -- 11½in.(29cm.)closed, probably English, late 17th/early 18th century

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A ¾-inch, five-draw, vellum and card-bodied telescope, with turned fruitwood eyepiece and mounts, the body-tube with tooled-decoration -- 11½in.(29cm.)closed, probably English, late 17th/early 18th century

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Literature
Turner, G., Decorative tooling on 17th & 18th century microscopes & telescopes.

Lot Essay

The decoration on the body-tube is very similar to that on instruments by both John Yarwell and John Marshall. They bear similarities with motifs 5 and 27 in Turner. Similar telescopes are illustrated on Yarwells trade card.

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