A REGENCY LACQUERED BRASS TWO INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPE

A REGENCY LACQUERED BRASS TWO INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPE

BY DOLLOND, LONDON, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

with a 28.75 inch slightly tapered tube with a brass dust cap to the objective end, opposing rack-and-pinion focus adjustment and telescopic eyepiece threaded into the tube endpiece, engraved 'DOLLOND * LONDON', mounted via a universal pivot joint onto a rotating column and on folding tripod supports cast as cabriole legs with pad feet, in its original mahogany box with additional eyepiece tube and lens, with key

78.5 cm long, 19cm deep, 11.5cm high (the box)

Catalogue Note

Peter Dollond is recorded in Edwin Banfield 'Barometer Makers and Retailers 1680-1860' as born 1730 and died 1820. He was the son of John Dollond, a Huguenot silk weaver and started business as an optician in 1750. He was joined by his father in 1752 until his death in 1761, and then by his brother, John, until his death in 1804. The family business was continued by Peter Dollond's nephew, George Huggins, who changed his surname to Dollond.