Description

The Elegance of Master Jesse, exquisitely script engraved “Je Ramsden, London,” with exceptional flourishes to some letters. Opening from 9-3/8″ to 28-3/4″ (24 to 73 cm), the telescope has main tube bound in beautifully grained orangish wood, three brass drawtubes, 1-5/8″ diameter triplet achromatic objective, four-element erecting eyepiece system (in an interesting variant of the Huygens erecting system, the two inner lenses here being biconvex; PC/CC/CC/CP), dust cap and dust slide. Condition is fine throughout noting a couple of age cracks to the wood and a number of quite small dents to the drawtubes. This is a good example of a quality instrument by the “master,” with his beautiful and quite unusual first-name signature.