Good day fellow Amarters,
I'm trying to help my step mother figure out the value of this piece of her estate.
The focuser is "craford like" in that: to focus one turns a knob on a perpendicular axis that pierces the right side of the telescoping tube it operates. It may have been designed for terrestrial use because it has no diagonal. The optics are very crisp however it has a slight dent half way up the main tube not in the light path cone.
The OTA/integral small tripod belongs to my 60 year old step mother's great grandfather, it is currently and has been stored in a small unconditioned building on top of their families old castle ruins in Switzerland. He passed around 1920 and she believes it may have been in the family before that.
I did not have a camera with me during the short visit but the patina and general condition seemed to me to line up well with the 1815 engraved date. I definitely believe it to be authentic and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what it's monetary value might be?
It is all brass(except the lenses) down to a tiny flip tab built-in to the thread-on eyepiece that can be rotated via a little nub to cover the small lens. Its around 80mm I suspect it to be around f/15-f/20, I did not find a lens cap although it may only be temporarily misplaced.
Thank you in advance,
_Nick
I'm trying to help my step mother figure out the value of this piece of her estate.
The focuser is "craford like" in that: to focus one turns a knob on a perpendicular axis that pierces the right side of the telescoping tube it operates. It may have been designed for terrestrial use because it has no diagonal. The optics are very crisp however it has a slight dent half way up the main tube not in the light path cone.
The OTA/integral small tripod belongs to my 60 year old step mother's great grandfather, it is currently and has been stored in a small unconditioned building on top of their families old castle ruins in Switzerland. He passed around 1920 and she believes it may have been in the family before that.
I did not have a camera with me during the short visit but the patina and general condition seemed to me to line up well with the 1815 engraved date. I definitely believe it to be authentic and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what it's monetary value might be?
It is all brass(except the lenses) down to a tiny flip tab built-in to the thread-on eyepiece that can be rotated via a little nub to cover the small lens. Its around 80mm I suspect it to be around f/15-f/20, I did not find a lens cap although it may only be temporarily misplaced.
Thank you in advance,
_Nick
