Thomas Cooke & Sons telescope for sale in India in 1891

 

Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore) Saturday 3^rd January 1891

 

For sale Owner leaving India 

An equatorial telescope of 6 inches aperture by T Cooke & Sons, York driven by clockwork, with stellar and solar eyepieces. 

Also the revolving roof or dome (16 feet diameter) of sheet zinc on teak framing, covering the telescope. 

H B Hederstedt, late Chief Engineer of the Oude and Rohilkund Railway, Lucknow

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