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A 19th-Century brass 3½inch refracting telescope,
signed M. MANENT LA CROIX DE BERNY (Seine) on the back-plate, the 48¼in. (102.5cm.) long body-tube with lens cap, rack and pinion focusing, star-finder, sliding balance compensating weight, the trunnion support with geared altitude depression and azimuth adjustment via twin brass mounted mahogany rods with compass joints, rack and pinion vertical adjustment, mounted on a brass diagonal cruciform braced oak tripod stand with adjustable levelling-screw feet
See Colour Plate 5
signed M. MANENT LA CROIX DE BERNY (Seine) on the back-plate, the 48¼in. (102.5cm.) long body-tube with lens cap, rack and pinion focusing, star-finder, sliding balance compensating weight, the trunnion support with geared altitude depression and azimuth adjustment via twin brass mounted mahogany rods with compass joints, rack and pinion vertical adjustment, mounted on a brass diagonal cruciform braced oak tripod stand with adjustable levelling-screw feet
See Colour Plate 5