Telescope (Spyglass)
notes: label: Description
content: Perry Mason & Co. published <i>The Youth’s Companion</i>, the most popular and successful family journal in the U.S. in the second half of the nineteenth century. This small spyglass was probably a premium given for a subscription to that magazine. It has an achromatic objective, a four-element erecting eyepiece, and a five-section brass draw tube covered with leather. The inscription reads "PERRY MASON & Co. BOSTON." Since the firm became Perry Mason Company in August 1900, this instrument was probably made before that time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0399.0073
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0399.0073
label: accession number
content: 1980.0399
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
label: Object Name
content: telescope (spy glass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 1 27/32 in; 27.94 cm x 4.699 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 28.2575 cm x 6.35 cm