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Telescope

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Collection Type

  • Tools and equipment

Date

1745-1800

GUSN

GUSN-4325

Description

Single wooden cylinder fitted with brass enclosed eye piece and cylinder telescopic unit; eye piece and opposite lens with circular brass sliding covers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

telescopes
brass (alloy)
wood (plant material)
Brass
TELESCOPE

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

1.125 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.627

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