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A late 18th-Century brass 1½-inch refracting telescope,
signed on the draw-tube GILBERT, LONDON, the 17½in. (144.5cm.) long body-tube with rack and pinion focusing, raised on a tapering pillar support and folding tripod stand, the cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, with maker's trade label for J.D. Potter, in fitted mahogany case -- 19½in. (49.5cm.) long
See Illustration and trade label
signed on the draw-tube GILBERT, LONDON, the 17½in. (144.5cm.) long body-tube with rack and pinion focusing, raised on a tapering pillar support and folding tripod stand, the cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, with maker's trade label for J.D. Potter, in fitted mahogany case -- 19½in. (49.5cm.) long
See Illustration and trade label