Cooke telescope on display at York Exhibition in 1881

 Yorkshire Gazette Saturday 7^th May 1881

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, today that telescope would cost over £186,000

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