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Brass telescope 3 extensions signed F.M. Newton Optician Halifax 1870
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Brass telescope with leather-covered handle and three-extension focus, signed F.M. Newton Optician Halifax of the second half of the 1800s. Maximum length cm 87.5, inches 34.4 minimum cm 30,- inches 11.7 focal diameter cm 4.5 - inches 1.8. Good condition, crack on last lens not affecting quality of vision, fully functional and complete with custom made wood and brass base stand.
To bring the scope into focus, you have to stretch it all the way out and then slowly shorten the last stretch, the smaller one, until the image is in focus.
The last photo is the gift box.
Frederick Mark Newton born in 1817 was an optician and telescope maker plied his trade at Halifax from 1871 to 1885.
According to legend, one unspecified day in 1608 the children of Hans Lipperhey, who was an eyeglass maker in Middelburg , were playing in their father's workshop with lenses. When one of the sons put a concave lens next to his own eye, holding a convex lens in his other hand, and reaching out his arm in the direction of the tip of the cathedral bell tower he looked through it, he saw the wind-marking rooster at the top grow larger and closer. Immediately showing the phenomenon to his father, he fixed the lenses on a plank to make observation easier, thus creating the first rudimentary telescope. Unfortunately for Lipperhey, however, when he submitted a patent application for this instrument to the states general, within days other Dutch eyeglass makers also claimed the invention.
- Dimensions:Height: 34.4 in (87.38 cm)Diameter: 1.8 in (4.58 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1870
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1020238982922
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