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Auction archive: Lot number 11

A Victorian 4 inch refracting telescope

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$836 - US$1,115
Price realised:
£1,300
ca. US$1,812
Auction archive: Lot number 11

A Victorian 4 inch refracting telescope

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$836 - US$1,115
Price realised:
£1,300
ca. US$1,812
Beschreibung:

A Victorian 4 inch refracting telescope The eyepiece signed for John Browning, London The 48 inch leather-covered tube fitted with a 'star-finder' and rack-and-pinion focus adjustment and second telescopic draw to eyepiece end opposing objective with lacquered brass cap, the whole mounted via two pivot bars secured by knurled screws between a pair of shaped brackets applied to a substantial rotating brass post fitted onto a mahogany tripod with hinged tapered wooded open-frame supports, the tube 138cm (54.5ins) long closed; with a mahogany box containing two additional eyepieces, another within an eight-inch extension tube and two filters along with a selection of unrelated accessories. John Browning is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from various addresses in London from 1862 until after 1900; he was 'Optical & Physical Instrument Maker to Her Majesty's Government, The Royal Observatory and Kew Observatory'.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
21 Apr 2021
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

A Victorian 4 inch refracting telescope The eyepiece signed for John Browning, London The 48 inch leather-covered tube fitted with a 'star-finder' and rack-and-pinion focus adjustment and second telescopic draw to eyepiece end opposing objective with lacquered brass cap, the whole mounted via two pivot bars secured by knurled screws between a pair of shaped brackets applied to a substantial rotating brass post fitted onto a mahogany tripod with hinged tapered wooded open-frame supports, the tube 138cm (54.5ins) long closed; with a mahogany box containing two additional eyepieces, another within an eight-inch extension tube and two filters along with a selection of unrelated accessories. John Browning is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from various addresses in London from 1862 until after 1900; he was 'Optical & Physical Instrument Maker to Her Majesty's Government, The Royal Observatory and Kew Observatory'.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
21 Apr 2021
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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