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Small, ivory telescope, intact and rare.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Maritime Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:350.00 - 500.00 USD
Small, ivory telescope, intact and rare.
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Small, ivory telescope, intact and rare. 76.9 grams, 5" long and 1" in diameter. Very interesting short tube of ivory with original lenses (now opaque and no longer functional), assembled and reassembled by threads in the ivory reinforced by (corroded) brass rings, intact except for cracks on one piece, first such artifact we have ever seen and one of very few artifacts available from this wreck. With Pieces of Eight (Captiva, FL) certificate. Recovered from: Conde de Tolosa, sunk in 1724 off the Dominican Republic.