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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4479363, member: 360"]Here's a telescope from the late 1700s - early 1800s. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collections.rmg.co.uk/media/427/644/f4500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here you can see the sliding lens-shutters at either end, designed to keep the lenses from damage, rain, dust, etc. Yours likely would've had similar ones. I'm not sure why they stopped making them like this - I think it's kinda cool - but it's a feature that disappeared on later Victorian-era telescopes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4479363, member: 360"]Here's a telescope from the late 1700s - early 1800s. [IMG]https://collections.rmg.co.uk/media/427/644/f4500.jpg[/IMG] Here you can see the sliding lens-shutters at either end, designed to keep the lenses from damage, rain, dust, etc. Yours likely would've had similar ones. I'm not sure why they stopped making them like this - I think it's kinda cool - but it's a feature that disappeared on later Victorian-era telescopes.[/QUOTE]
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