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A late 18th-Century brass surveying level,
unsigned, the telescope with draw-tube focusing, bubble level, vertical screw adjustment, with object glass and eye-piece dust slides, raised on a limb with staff mounting, in plush-lined fishskin-covered case, the lid with trade label (defective) inscribed Made by Benjamin Cole at the Orrery, next the Globe Tavern in Fleet Street, London -- 9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) wide

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