A 1½IN. SINGLE-DRAW MARINE TELESCOPE OF CIRCA 1810

unsigned, the 22½in. leather-covered tapering wooden tube with single draw and backstop, flared eyecup with dust slide -- 25¼in. (64cm.) (closed); together with a portable level signed RICHER À PARIS contained in a wooden box inscribed inside lid A Moir, securing hooks and carrying handle -- 8¾in. (22cm.) wide

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Provenance: Family hearsay attributes this instrument to John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent, his personal property and thence by descent.

Provenance: By family tradition this telescope was the property of John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent (1735-1823).

Condition Report

Telescope is optically fine, lenses need cleaning, objective assembly loose and needs reattaching and lacking dust slide, leather cover slightly shrunk, typical scuffs and staining related to age; surveying instrument dirty but in good overall condition, box has two or three empty compartments.

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