A REFLECTING TELESCOPE
BY GEORGE STERROP, MID-18TH CENTURY
Signed on the back plate 'George Sterrop MAKER', the leather covered body tube, with speculum mirrors and screw rod focusing, mounted on the limb with two butterfly nuts on the compass joint and tapering column and baluster tripod stand, the cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, with original fitted case
18½ in. (47 cm.) long, in a fitted box
A REFLECTING TELESCOPE
BY GEORGE STERROP, MID-18TH CENTURY
Signed on the back plate 'George Sterrop MAKER', the leather covered body tube, with speculum mirrors and screw rod focusing, mounted on the limb with two butterfly nuts on the compass joint and tapering column and baluster tripod stand, the cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, with original fitted case
18½ in. (47 cm.) long, in a fitted box