$2,963
3 1/4- inch Almer Coe & Company Brass Telescope, Chicago, Illinois, c. 1900, with 50-in. main barrel and cast mark on the eyepiece end, Almer Coe & Co. Chicago , 8-in. sighting scope, rack focus, two additional brass draws, one marked Bardou & Son, Paris and GB , the other unmarked, walnut tripod with geared elevation crank and walnut and oak carrying case, cased, lg. 53 in. lacquering now largely gone, brass surface of main tube tarnished, optics are undistubed, tripod lacking finish, instrument well used but not abused.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-16