Lot Essay
Thomas Charles Robinson was working from this address from 1825 until his death in 1841.
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Details
A good 19th-Century oxidised and lacquered-brass transit theodolite,
of small size, signed Robinson 38 Devonshire St Portland Plce London , the 3¾-inch long telescope with draw-tube adjustment to the objective, mounted on a vertical circle with silvered scale and twin vernier arms and magnifiers, a bubble level mounted on the other side, raised on a turned column from the 3½-inch horizontal circle with three vernier arms, silvered scale, fine-screw adjustment and clamp, raised on three splayed screw feet on a mahogany base-plate with rotating brass locking plate, with secondary telescope, smoked eyepiece and prismatic eyepiece, in a slightly pyramidal mahogany case with brass carrying handle -- 24.6cm. (9 5/8in.) high
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of small size, signed Robinson 38 Devonshire S
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Literature
CLIFTON, G., British Scientific Instrument Makers: 1550-1851 (London, 1995)
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