A 1½IN. THREE-DRAW NICKEL PLATED COPPER TELESCOPE BY GILKERSON

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A 1½IN. THREE-DRAW NICKEL PLATED COPPER TELESCOPE BY GILKERSON
with red enamelled main tube, signed on the eye cup GILKERSON TOWER HILL LONDON, lens cap -- 10/30in. (25/76cm.) closed/open; together with another, unsigned, later, contained within leather travelling tube. (2)

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Gilkerson is recorded as being in several partnerships during the early 19th century, and worked alone during 1817. If this example is indeed of that date, it is a very early example of an all-metal telescope at a time when wood and brass was still commonly used.