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Pietro Patroni (also known as Petrus Patronus) is best known for his binocular telescopes and microscopes after descriptions by Cherubin.
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PIETRO PATRONI, Milan
A card-bodied, seven-draw 2¼-inch telescope, with mottled-coloured paper covering to the draws, leather-covered body-tube with gilt-tooled decoration, turned-wood mounts, one signed in ink Pietro Patromi in Milano -- 24in.(61cm.)long approx. closed, circa 1710
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A card-bodied, seven-draw 2¼-inch telescope, with mottled-coloured paper covering to the draws, leather-covered body-tube with gilt-tooled decoration, turned-wood mounts, one signed in ink Pietro Patromi in Milano -- 24in.(61cm.)long approx. closed, circa 1710
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