Bruder Teiner Field Glasses
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: user
content: Wood, Leonard
label: maker
content: Bruder Teiner
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass instrument with black leather covering the barrels. It has a center focus. The objective lenses are 45 mm in diameter. The length is 93 mm (closed). The “BRUDER TEINER CARLSBAD” signature on the eyecups refers to a firm that was in business in the second half of the nineteenth century, and that was associated with Josef Teiner (fl. 1860-1890), a man known largely as a mineral collector. Carlsbad, a famous spa town in Bohemia, is now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic.
label: Description
content: Given to the Smithsonian by Mrs. Leonard Wood, these glasses were probably used by her husband, the eminent army physician.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Czech Republic: Karlovarský Kraj, Karlovy Vary
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: Optics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.36018
label: accession number
content: 105588
label: catalog number
content: 36018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: binoculars
label: Object Name
content: field glasses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 6 in x 3 in; 12.7 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.62 cm