Opera Glasses
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
name: label: retailer
content: Pike, Jr., Benjamin
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass instrument with tortoise-shell covering the barrels. The objective lenses are about 4 cm diameter. The inside of the case is marked “BENJ. PIKE JR. / 294 Broadway / New York.”
label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike, Jr., the leading purveyor of scientific instruments in New York in the middle years of the 19th century, sold some things made in the United States, and some imported from Europe. This probably came from France.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1856), vol. 2, pp. 174-175.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. David Gregg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334875
label: catalog number
content: 334875
label: accession number
content: 312744
objectType: label: Object Name
content: opera glasses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; glasses: 2 3/16 in x 4 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 5.55625 cm x 12.065 cm x 12.065 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; case: 2 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 13.0175 cm x 10.795 cm