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English Pocket Telescope
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greetings card
Louwman, Peter
Europe: Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Wassenaar
2011
card
overall: 148 mm x 210 mm

Christmas greetings card, landscape format, featuring, on the front, a photograph of an early 18th c. English pocket telescope from the Louwman Collection, with a single draw tube of covered in tooled leather, black shagreen-covered barrel, eyepiece and brass lens mounts, shown against a modern Christmas tree, customised on the inside for Peter and Hansje Louwman, with a textual description of the object in Dutch and English.


2011.925

Gift of Peter and Hansje Louwman, 2011



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