Lot 571
  • 571

A French unusually large brass adjustable magnifying glass on stand mid-19th century, stamped J. Duboscq à Paris

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • 82cm. high; 2ft. 8¼in.
the circular swivelling glass on a turned columnar stem above a circular base

Catalogue Note

Jules Duboscq (1817-1886) was a leading nineteenth-century optical instrument maker.  He exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London.