Early Italian Telescope

Hammer Price
€480.00 incl. Buyer's Premium

Estimate
€800.00 – 1,000

Starting Price €400.00

This item is subject to margin scheme taxation and the premium is 24% if it remains in the EU. For shipments to a third country (outside the EU), the premium is 20%.

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Condition

B/C

Manufacture Year

c.1780

Product number

AI_35_37693

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