Telescope (Spyglass)
name: label: maker
content: I. P. Cutts, Sutton & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Spyglass with an achromatic objective, four-element erecting eye piece, and brass body covered with leather. The "TRADE MARK / TRY ME (with image of fouled anchor)" inscription is also seen on English telescopes inscribed I. P. Cutts, Sutton & Son.
label: Description
content: S. Thaxter & Son, nautical instrument dealers in Boston, sent this spyglass to the Smithsonian in 1880. The U.S. Fish Commission included it in its display at the International Fisheries Exhibition held in London in 1883, and perhaps in the similar Exhibition held in Berlin in 1880 as well.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. Brown Goode, et. al., Descriptive Catalogues of the Collections Sent from the United States to the International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883 (Washington, D.C., 1884), vol. 2, p. 728.
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: PH.39392
label: catalog number
content: 39392
label: accession number
content: 8745
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
label: Object Name
content: telescope (spy glass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 53.0225 cm x 3.81 cm