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A 19th-Century brass 2.1/2-inch refracting telescope,
signed on the 43in. (109.2cm.) long body-tube G. & C. Dixey, Opticians to the King, 3 New Bond Street, LONDON, with rack and pinion focusing, lens cap, star-finder telescope, raised on a limb and tapering pillar support with telescopic steadying-bar and folding tripod stand, the cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, with an additional eyepiece, in plush-lined mahogany case -- 45.1/4in. (115cm.) wide
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signed on the 43in. (109.2cm.) long body-tube G. & C. Dixey, Opticians to the King, 3 New Bond Street, LONDON, with rack and pinion focusing, lens cap, star-finder telescope, raised on a limb and tapering pillar support with telescopic steadying-bar and folding tripod stand, the cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, with an additional eyepiece, in plush-lined mahogany case -- 45.1/4in. (115cm.) wide
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