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Monocular Spyglass signed by Sykes, Place du Palais-Royal
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greetings card
Louwman, Peter
Europe: Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Wassenaar
2010
card
overall: 210 mm x 148 mm

Christmas greetings card, portrait format, featuring, on the front, a photograph of a late 18th c. spyglass from the Louwman Collection, with a tube of Sevres porcelain, blackened ivory lens mounts and the arms of Queen Marie Antoinette, shown against a modern Christmas tree, customised on the inside for Peter and Hansje Louwman, with a textual description of the object and the optician H. Sykes.


2010.786

Gift of Peter and Hansje Louwman, 2010



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