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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 423174, member: 360&quot;]My experience with telescopes tells me that this is significantly older than the Victorian era. How much older I&#039;m not sure, but I doubt this was made after the 1830s... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]147910[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]147911[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]147912[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]147913[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The engraving &quot;W.B. to F.S. Fox&quot; is the only writing on it. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]147914[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After buying it, I cleaned the lenses and refitted one of the threaded coupling-rings which hold the draw-tubes together (it was loose and wobbly, but it&#039;s fine now). </p><p><br /></p><p>The telescope is in great overall condition. The lenses aren&#039;t damaged. There&#039;s one or two minor dents but nothing that affects its use or maintenance. There&#039;s one crack down the barrel which I suspect is just from age or something. The barrel itself is not broken. The seller speculated that the brass ring around the middle was (possibly) a later addition to the telescope, to reinforce it when the barrel cracked. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen such a thing on ANY other antique telescope that I&#039;ve either seen, or owned, so it seems to be a reasonable suggestion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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