Ebony frame with brass index arm and fittings, wooden handle. Tangent screw and clamping screw on the back of the index arm. Four shades (three red, one green); three horizon shades (two red, one green). Index glass adjustment by screw; horizon glass by capstan screws for perpendicularity only. Magnifying glass on a swiveling arm. Threaded telescope bracket. Telescope (84 mm) upright image, shaded eyepiece (red). Telescope/sight tube missing, magnifier (detached) missing. Polished mahogany keystone box with in the lid a trade label for J. Hughes, 38 Queen Street, London (1845).
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Signed on the inlaid ivory plate on the crossbar: "COX DEVONPORT"
