A late 19th/early 20th-Century American 3-inch lacquered-brass telescope with tripod
A late 19th/early 20th-Century American 3-inch lacquered-brass telescope with tripod

QUEEN & CO., PHILADELPHIA

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A late 19th/early 20th-Century American 3-inch lacquered-brass telescope with tripod
Queen & Co., Philadelphia
the backplate stamped QUEEN & CO. PHILA., the 42-inch long body-tube with card dust cap, rack and pinion and draw-tube focusing, with day and night draw-tubes, in the original fitted pine case with labels for THE A.LIETZ, San Francisco, and for QUEEN & Co., Inc., Philadelphia, the latter inscribed in pencil A.J. GLADDING LINCONL[sic] CALIF., with the original black-painted wooden tripod with brass and iron mounting
the case -- 49¼in. (125.1cm.) wide; the tripod -- 68in. (172.8cm.) high