19th Nov, 2021 12:00

Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science

 
Lot 455
 

A Victorian Spectroscope

English, late 19th century, unsigned, in lacquered and ebonised brass with enamelled iron feet, complete with telescope, collimator with slit, glass prism and cased diffraction grating 15,000 lines to the inch, 14cm silvered circle divided to one degree, reading to five arc-minutes by vernier, in fitted mahogany case, instrument 33cm high with prism in place

Sold for £521

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English, late 19th century, unsigned, in lacquered and ebonised brass with enamelled iron feet, complete with telescope, collimator with slit, glass prism and cased diffraction grating 15,000 lines to the inch, 14cm silvered circle divided to one degree, reading to five arc-minutes by vernier, in fitted mahogany case, instrument 33cm high with prism in place

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