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Collection:  SCM - Optics
Object Name:  opera glass; telescope - Galilean; telescope - refracting
Maker:  Dixey, Charles Wastell
Place Made:  City of Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom
Date Made:  1838-1862
Materials:  brass (copper, zinc alloy); glass; tortoiseshell
Measurements:  overall (closed): Wd. 100 mm x 75 Dia. mm, ; overall (open): Wd. 145 mm x Dia. 75 mm, Wt. 0.36kg
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Description:  Opera glass telescope, 'Galilean' type, with 2-draw brass and tortoiseshell tube, by C W Dixey, new Bond Street, 1838-1862.

Object Number:  1983-333

Credit Line:  Wellcome Trust

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