Saturday 21 May 2022

An expensive 10 inch Cooke

 

Yorkshire Gazette Saturday 7th May 1881


York Exhibition

In the space intervening between the central and Great Halls, a large equatorial mounted telescope which stands 15 feet high is exhibited by Messrs T Cooke & Sons York opticians, the instrument which is an object of curiosity with an object glass of 10 inches.

The sale price is £1200 (my note; today that telescope would cosy nearly £150,000)




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