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RAMSDEN, LONDON
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A fine late 18th-Century English lacquered-brass 2½ inch table telescope
Ramsden, London
signed on the 25½ inch long body-tube Ramsden London, with dust-cap and rack and pinion eyepiece extension tube focusing, raised via a compass joint and brass column with telescopic stabilising rod with ivory key for rack and pinion adjustment to a folding tripod base with inswept legs, in fitted mahogany carrying case with two brass hooks and eyes
30½ in. (78.1cm.) wide (2)
Ramsden, London
signed on the 25½ inch long body-tube Ramsden London, with dust-cap and rack and pinion eyepiece extension tube focusing, raised via a compass joint and brass column with telescopic stabilising rod with ivory key for rack and pinion adjustment to a folding tripod base with inswept legs, in fitted mahogany carrying case with two brass hooks and eyes
30½ in. (78.1cm.) wide (2)
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