Telescope
Description
A portable telescope with a wooden barrel and three extendable brass draw tubes. The telescope has a brass eyepiece with a sliding cover and a brass portion around the objective lens. " Cary / London " is engraved on the draw tube nearest the eyepiece.
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Classification
Credit line
This
telescope
belonged
to
Frederic
Alonzo
Carrington
who
surveyed
the
site
of
New
Plymouth
in
1841.
Accession number
PA2005.027
Collection type
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