Details
A 19th-Century Venetian brass, pasteboard and paper four-draw telescope,
the outer body-tube with embossed orange paper covering, stamped LEONARDO AMITECOLO, with sliding brass cover for object lens, each draw-tube with a horn end-ring, fruitwood-bound field lens, the stained ivory eyepiece embossed JUMELLE DUCHESSE 12 VERRES (old distress to paper and some cracks and losses to horn rings) -- 11¾in. (29.8cm.) long (closed)
the outer body-tube with embossed orange paper covering, stamped LEONARDO AMITECOLO, with sliding brass cover for object lens, each draw-tube with a horn end-ring, fruitwood-bound field lens, the stained ivory eyepiece embossed JUMELLE DUCHESSE 12 VERRES (old distress to paper and some cracks and losses to horn rings) -- 11¾in. (29.8cm.) long (closed)
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