Beautiful Hand-tool Brass Leather Mount Antique Vintage Spyglass 12" Straight Telescope

Item No :- TC 018

Weight :- 172 grams (approx)

Size :- 12 inches while fully extended (approx)

Description :- Spyglass telescope made to store away as small as possible this is a marvel of hand tooled telescoping brass tubes. Pull out all the way and focus by adjusting the smallest eye-section. Feel like a sea captain scanning the horizon from a heaving aft-deck. Spyglass telescope covered in leather and has brass polished finish. This Traditional Brass & Leather Rose London Telescope is ideal to grace the balcony, library, conservatory or drawing room of a fine house. These beautifully crafted, hand-polished, solid brass telescope have been manufactured to reflect the workmanship and materials of a more elegant bygone age. All feature high quality fully coated optics making them highly functional products. All models provide erect images, so can be used for terrestrial viewing as well as for basic observation observations. 

Short History:- A telescope is an instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light). The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century, using glass lenses. They found use in terrestrial applications and astronomy. Within a few decades, the reflecting telescope was invented, which used mirrors. In the 20th century many new types of telescopes were invented, including radio telescopes in the 1930s and infrared telescopes in the 1960s.