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Military sighting telescope.

Made:: 1916 in Ealing

maker:: W Ottway and Company Limited

supplier:: Vickers Limited

Brass military sighting telescope (machine gun?), made by W

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Brass military sighting telescope (machine gun?), made by W
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Brass military sighting telescope (machine gun?), made by W. Ottway & Co. Ltd, Ealing, London and supplied by Vickers Limited, England, 1916.

Details

Category:: Optics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1997-1959

Materials:: brass (copper, zinc alloy), paper (fibre product) and glass

Measurements:: overall: 38 mm x 332 mm x 65 mm, Wt. 0.901kg

type:: telescope - sighting and telescope - refracting

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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