A RARE 18th-CENTURY 1¼IN. THREE-DRAW BRASS AND SHAGREEN REFRACTING “SUBSCRIPTION” TELESCOPE BY WILLIAM STORER, LONDON, with shagreen-covered main tube, lens cap and dust-slide to eye-piece, finely engraved on tube with the Royal Arms and inscribed underneath The Subscription Telescope / by the King’s Patent / Sero sed Serio / Warranted to be adjusted by Wm. Storer, / & delivered to the Subscribers / at Chas. Lincoln’s, / No.62 Leadenhall Street, / London, rack-and-pinion focus, further engraved on lower stage * Storer, Professor of Optics to His Majesty No.8 -- 7¾in. (19.6cm.) closed, William Storer worked in London (off Leicester Fields, now Leicester Square) between 1778-1789 but was bankrupted in 1784. These telescopes are discussed in the article reference below. The numbering seems to have been rather opaque and, despite the highest number (188) being sold in these rooms in April 2010. The present lot, the lowest number to date, brings the total known to just six examples, suggesting that Storer used random numbers to disguise low sales. That Sero sed Serio (Late, but in earnest) was included in the inscriptions is telling., Literature: De Clercq, Dr. P: Bulletin 98, (pp37-8) September 2008, Scientific Instrument Society.
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A 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH LACQUERED-BRASS SOLAR PROJECTING MICROSCOPE, unsigned, with substantial lens assembly and bed plate with adjustable mirror, contained in fitted mahogany box with removable two-tier fitted compartment for accessories including live box, specimen brass slides and two annotated wooden slides, the case -- 14½in. (37cm.) diameter
A Rare Emotive Great War Family Collection of Medals to the Peachey Brothers of Newbury, Berkshire. A Great War Group of Three to Private A. W. Peachey, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914-15 Star (10526 Pte. A. W. Peachey. R.A.M.C.) British War and Victory Medals (15619 Pte A. W. Peachey. R.A.M.C.). A Great War Casualty Group of Three to Private W. J. Peachey, 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, British War and Victory Medals (10526 Pte. W. J. Peachey. R. Berks. R.) Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Wilfred John Peachey). Lance Corporal Wilfred Peachey Fell on the 25th of September 1915, aged 29 years, Son of Richard and Julia F. Peachey, of Falkland Farm, Wash Common, Newbury, Berks, he has no known grave, but is Remembered with Honour at the Loos Memorial, to the Missing (Dud Corner Cemetery) Panel 93 - 95,. Dud Corner Cemetery stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle.The name "Dud Corner” is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice. The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice. A Great War Casualty Group of Three to Gunner E. R. Peachey, ‘B’ Battery, 165th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, British War and Victory Medals (901295 Gnr. E. R. Peachey. R. A.) Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Edward Richard Peachey). Gunner Edward Peachey Fell on the 29th of October 1918, aged 29 years, less than a month before the end of hostilities, Son of Richard and Julia F. Peachey of Sydmonton, Newbury ; husband of Florence L. Peachey of ‘Heatherlea’, Wash Common, Newbury, Berks, he is Remembered with Honour at the La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck G.R. V.25, France. La Kreule Military Cemetery was opened in April 1918 by the 1st and 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations, which came back from Outtersteene ahead of the German advance, and the 17th, which arrived from Lijssenthoek. These three stations, known collectively as "Ana Jana Siding”, were posted to the north of La Kreule, but in the middle of April they withdrew to Blendecques, near St. Omer, and the cemetery was then used by heavy artillery and fighting units. In October 1918, the 17th Casualty Clearing Station returned with the 8th and the 64th and the cemetery was closed at the end of the month. A Second World War Group of Three to R. Peachey, 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, War Medal 1939-1945, in their inscribed card box of issue.View on dnfa.com
A Pair of Second World War Zeiss Kriegsmarine 7 x 50 Binoculars, serial no. 1965733 bearing the kriegsmarine eagle over ‘M’ and ‘T’ - ‘D.F. 7 x 50, retaining much of their original black paint finish, complete with leather lens cover, leather strap, in their original black carrying case with spare eye-pieces.View on dnfa.com
A ROLEX 14CT GOLD WRISTWATCH OYSTER PERPETUAL DATE, REF1500 calibre 1570, No 2134550, 26 jewel nickel finished self winding movement, numbered D455078, matt gilt dial with raised baton markers and crown trademark, centre seconds, date aperture, crystal with lens, Twinlock winding crown and screw down case back, case, dial and movement signed Surface rust on rotor and split case back
OPTICAL TOY. A VICTORIAN DERBYSHIRE ALABASTER PEEP EGG the interior glimpsed through a lens in the top revealing two revolving miniature mineral gardens and a coloured engraving of Buxton Crescent, the exterior painted with flowers and inscribed Trifle from Buxton, on flared foot, 12cm h Complete and in good condition with wear to the painted decoration on the exterior
ZEISS IKON SUPER IKONTA II model 533-16, with maker`s 80mm f2.8 Tessar lens in Compur shutter, worn leather ever ready case, two Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super cameras, both with 50mm f2.8 Tessar lens and three Pro Tessar lenses, comprising 35mm f4 (2) and 115mm f4, two cased, all mid 20th c (6)
ZEISS IKON CONTAX IIIa two, serial nos T8369 and B98817, one with maker`s ever ready case, four Zeiss lenses comprising 50mm f2 and 125mm f4 Sonnar, 35mm f2.8 Biogon and 28mm f8 Tessar, a Zeiss Ikon Rangefinder model 1340 outfit, cased and various Zeiss filters, lens hoods, lightmeter, Contax instruction book, etc Both cameras tested for operation and one shutter a little hesitant on one second exposure but as a lot in very good condition
LEICA IIIa serial no 267366 with Leitz Elmar 5cm f3.5 lens, several lens caps, viewfinder, etc In good condition, the shutter apparently working on slow speeds, condition about very good with slight signs of use but not undue marks of wear such as chrome rubbing on the wheels and later synchronised for flash
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