Telescope (Spyglass)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830 - 1856
name: label: maker
content: Watkins & Hill
notes: label: Description
content: This telescope has an achromatic objective, a four-element erecting eye piece, and a three-draw brass body covered with brown leather that tapers notably from front to back. The inscriptions read "Watkins & Hill, Charing Cross, London" and "THE HONBLE CHARLES HAY, SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS." Watkins & Hill were in business from 1822 to 1856. The Scots Fusilier Guards were established in 1831.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Astronomy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330321
label: catalog number
content: 330321
label: accession number
content: 290549
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 2 in; 25.4 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 26.035 cm x 6.0325 cm