Lot 382
4-INCH REFRACTING BRASS TELESCOPE, BY E. & G. W. BLUNT, NEW YORK
19TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 5 April 2017 at 11:00 BST
£500
Description
marked E. & G.W. BLUNT/ NEW YORK/ DAY AND NIGHT, raised on a mahogany tripod, in a wood case
Dimensions
177cm long approx.
Footnote
The Collection of the Late Allan Murray.
Provenance: Vernonscope & Co., New York, 10 May 1993, Lot 330
Note: Edmund and George William Blunt were American specialists in nautical instruments during the mid-19th century. After initially trading nautical books, charts and instruments, the brothers began to focus on the design of scientific instruments in the mid-1850s. This telescope may have been made by John or Thomas Blunt in England and imported through a New York outlet.