Brass 2 3/4-inch Reflecting Telescope

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Brass 2 3/4-inch Reflecting Telescope, engraved on the eyepiece Josph. Hurt, Ludgate St., London, with 14-inch lg. body tube, speculum mirror, screw-rod focusing, and lens cap on chain, mounted with wingnuts on shaped compass joint to tapering brass pillar, on three folding cabriole legs, ht. 14 in. level, (lacking primary objective).

Joseph Hurt (or Hurst) is listed as an optician and maker of optical and mathematical instruments at Archimedes & Three Golden Spectacles, Ludgate, between 1736-1748.
Estimate $600-800

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