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Lot 118
Two Spyglasses and a Table Telescope
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
All brass, as follows: the first, 19th century, marked "Dolland London, Impl'd Day or Night" and, in a later hand, "U. S. Navy 28819," the tube sheathed in leather, with lens cap (20-3/8 in. closed; 35-3/8 in. extended) (losses to leather; the second, first quarter 20th century, # 8091, with a leather tube cover stamped, "U. S. NAVY. / OFFICER OF THE DECK SPYGLASS / POWER 12 1/2 / NEUFFEL & ESSER CO. N.Y. (16-3/4 in.closed; 22-1/2 in. extended) (leather splitting to reveal green verdigris on tube; wear to black paint); unmarked brass table telescope, 20th century, with tripod, legs extending 13 in. when fully open, the tube 15-1/2 in., lacks finder.

All telescopes work, however lenses need cleaning and adjustment.