Audemair Field Glasses
name: label: maker
content: Audemair
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass instrument with central focus that was probably used by the U.S. Signal Service, perhaps as early as the 1870s. The objective lenses are 55 mm diameter. The length is 16 cm (closed). The optics are good. Each eyecup is marked “AUDEMAIR PARIS” with a logo representing a stag’s head. The brace at the eye end is marked “U.S. SIGNAL.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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.78131M
label: catalog number
content: 78131M
label: catalog number
content: 317849.01
label: accession number
content: 317849
objectType: label: Object Name
content: field glasses
label: Object Name
content: binoculars
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 5 in x 2 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 12.7 cm x 6.35 cm