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Spy Glass Etui
DESCRIPTION
Bilston spy glass/etui attributed to Thomas Ribright, body with four bucolic scenes framed with Rococo decoration, containing fruit knife, tweezers, bodkin, toothpick/ear scoop, by opening the dust slides at either end of etui it becomes a Galilean monocular telescope, length 12.4cm; Notes: This instrument is the subject of an article in the September 2014 edition of the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument
PRICE RANGE
£500 - £1,000
CIRCA
1765
DIMENSIONS
Height: 4.9"
Width: 1"
Length:
CONDITION
Good
ITEM No
8957
Category: Etuis and sewing