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1.5-inch refracting telescope
1.5-inch refracting telescope

1.5-inch refracting telescope

Datecirca 1900
Inventory Number1989-4-0014
ClassificationTelescope
Subject
    Maker French
    Owner Frances W. Wright 1897 - 1989
    Cultural Region
      Dimensionsclosed: 5.5 × 5.5 × 25.5 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
      fully extended: 5.4 × 5.4 × 74 cm (2 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 29 1/8 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionPortable brass telescope with three draw tubes. The tube is covered with leather near the eyepiece end. The objective end has a sun shade and a dust cap. The sun shade consists of a sleeve screwed to a collar that slides on the tube.

        Lens aperture is 1.5 inch (4 cm).
        SignedLens cap stamped: MADE IN FRANCE
        ProvenanceFrances W. Wright, Harvard College Observatory; gift to CHSI by her estate with the aid of Martha Hazen, 1989.
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