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UNSIGNED, PROBABLY FRENCH. 18TH CENTURY
Details
A two-draw pasteboard telescope
Unsigned, probably French. 18th Century
The body-tube with horn mounts and bound in black fishskin, the draw-tubes covered in green vellum with horn mounts (parts of both end mounts missing; still usable)
22.4cm. long (closed)
Unsigned, probably French. 18th Century
The body-tube with horn mounts and bound in black fishskin, the draw-tubes covered in green vellum with horn mounts (parts of both end mounts missing; still usable)
22.4cm. long (closed)
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