A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND BRASS TWO-INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPEGILBERT AND COMPANY, LONDON, EARLY 19th CENTURYThe 29 inch mahogany covered slightly tapered tube with rack-and-pinion focus adjustment and telescopic eyepiece assembly threaded into the tube end piece engraved GILBERT & Co. LONDON to circumference, mounted via an universal pivot joint onto a rotating column turned upright over folding tripod supports cast as cabriole legs with pad feet.Minimum length 99.5cm (39.5ins), minimum standing height 48.5cm (19ins). Provenance:From the private collection of a titled family. Gilbert and Company are recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from around 1800.
A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND BRASS TWO-INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPEGILBERT AND COMPANY, LONDON, EARLY 19th CENTURYThe 29 inch mahogany covered slightly tapered tube with rack-and-pinion focus adjustment and telescopic eyepiece assembly threaded into the tube end piece engraved GILBERT & Co. LONDON to circumference, mounted via an universal pivot joint onto a rotating column turned upright over folding tripod supports cast as cabriole legs with pad feet.Minimum length 99.5cm (39.5ins), minimum standing height 48.5cm (19ins). Provenance:From the private collection of a titled family. Gilbert and Company are recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from around 1800.
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