High Grade Vintage Quality Red Leather Fine Optics Brass Kelvin & Hughes 1917 Marine Box Telescope

Item No :- TC 08

Weight :- 1 kg 400 grams (approx)

Size :- 22 inch (approx)

Description :- High Grade Quality Solid Brass Vintage Crown Mark Kelvin & Hughes London 1917 Red Leather Mounted Spyglass Telescope with Beautiful Rose Wood Box, High Class Antique Reproduction. This telescope is a fascinating solid brass 4 barrel telescope. The telescope barrels is screwed to each other so that it can be remove for cleaning the lens if needed. The genuine high quality bounded leather gives a aged affect to the telescope and a Patina display. The front of the wooden box has a brass claps and the box's corners and inlaid with brass splines. This Traditional Brass & Leather belt Spyglass 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.