Telescope (Spyglass)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1784-1840
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Browning & Rust
notes: label: Description
content: This spyglass has a mahogany barrel. Its brass, single draw, eye tube is marked "DAY OR NIGHT." The "SPENCER BROWNING & RUST LONDON" inscription on the lens cap refers to a firm that was in business, as such, from 1784 to 1840, specializing in instruments for navigational use.
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
label: See more items in
content: Military
label: See more items in
content: Navigation
label: See more items in
content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316945
label: catalog number
content: 316945
label: accession number
content: 229656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 2 1/2 in; 50.8 cm x 6.35 cm