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1504275855Code 5744 Vintage telescopeBrass and leather telescope, made in France in the second half of the XIX century. With sunshade extension and no-dust cap. Maximum length cm 40, minimum length cm 15, focal diameter cm 2.8. With brass and wooden support made to measure. Very good condition and perfectly working.
The legend tells that a day in 1608 the son of an optician in Middelburg, Hans Lipperhey, playing with some lenses of his father, put a concave lens near his eye, having in the hand the other convex lens: with his arm stretched to the point of the cathedral’s bell tower, he saw the weather-cock larger and nearer. He showed it to his father and he fixed these lenses on a small board, making easier the observation, creating the first rudimentary instrument for optical approaching. But Lipperhey was unlucky, in fact when he sent in an application to General States of Holland for the patent for this new optical instrument, in a few days some other opticians claimed this invention.
Nautical antiques include several items: antique telescopes, maps, compasses, old sextants. For example antique telescopes are items that many people love to collect or to present, also for their symbolic meaning “to look far”.
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