Early Italian Telescope
459
Hammer Price
€480
incl. Buyer's Premium
Estimate €800 – 1,000
Manufacture Year : c.1780
a very early three-draw, vellum-covered card-bodied telescope with horn fittings, with lines marked on the vellum for focus, body-tube with tooled decorations (now hardly visible), poor condition, but still usable, most probably made by Leonardo Semitecolo, Italy, about 1780