AN EARLY VICTORIAN LACQUERED BRASS TWO-INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPE W. MERFIELD, LONDON, CIRCA 1845 The 29 inch tube with objective dust cover, rack-and-pinion focus adjustment and telescopic eyepiece assembly threaded into the tube end piece engraved W. Merfield, 20 Change Alley, Cornhill, London to circumference, mounted via an universal pivot joint onto a rotating column turned upright fitted with a steady bar incorporating rack-and-pinion length adjustment spanning between the base of the column and the eyepiece end of the tube, over folding tripod supports cast as cabriole legs with pad feet. Minimum length 98cm (38.5ins), minimum standing height 52cm (20.5ins). William Merfield is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a cutler and optician working from several addresses in London 1820-57, including 20 Change Alley 1846-47.
AN EARLY VICTORIAN LACQUERED BRASS TWO-INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPE W. MERFIELD, LONDON, CIRCA 1845 The 29 inch tube with objective dust cover, rack-and-pinion focus adjustment and telescopic eyepiece assembly threaded into the tube end piece engraved W. Merfield, 20 Change Alley, Cornhill, London to circumference, mounted via an universal pivot joint onto a rotating column turned upright fitted with a steady bar incorporating rack-and-pinion length adjustment spanning between the base of the column and the eyepiece end of the tube, over folding tripod supports cast as cabriole legs with pad feet. Minimum length 98cm (38.5ins), minimum standing height 52cm (20.5ins). William Merfield is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a cutler and optician working from several addresses in London 1820-57, including 20 Change Alley 1846-47.
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