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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 423415, member: 360&quot;]Actually I&#039;d be MORE scared of a branded scope. I&#039;ve seen hundreds of reproductions and you can spot one a mile off - they always look &#039;too perfect&#039; with their aging. The vast majority of antique scopes that I&#039;ve seen were NOT branded - they were such common things that I guess most makers didn&#039;t see the point of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>A victorian (or even a modern) telescope has lenses which are held in with threaded rings. This is so that you can unscrew the whole damn thing and take out the glass to clean it, or replace it if it&#039;s broken.</p><p><br /></p><p>Georgian telescopes did not have this feature. Once the glass is broken, it&#039;s broken. You can&#039;t remove it. And you can&#039;t remove it because the glass disc is actually spun into the frame (made of brass) which holds it in place. It&#039;s a feature I&#039;ve only ever seen in MUCH older telescopes. By the Victorian era, for whatever reason, they decided that having lenses that were wholly removable might be a good idea if you wanted to try and replace them.</p><p><br /></p><p>On top of that, the eyepiece shutter simply slides up and down (like a guillotine). Victorian ones pivot from one side to the other on a screw. Modern telescopes still do this (that&#039;s when you can even find them with an eyepiece cover. Most of the reproductions that I&#039;ve seen don&#039;t bother with that today, but that&#039;s because they&#039;re not meant to be used as everyday tools).</p><p><br /></p><p>I dunno if I&#039;m making much sense. I&#039;d have to show you photographs to really explain it properly...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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