Cooke Telescope Tales - Cooke telescope sold to a banker in Cambridge in 1864

 Algernon Peckover FRAS (1803-1894) was a banker from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and in 1864 he purchased a Thomas Cooke & Sons 5.5 inch telescope. 

There were 5 astronomical eyepieces and it came with a plain equatorial mounting. The cost was £130 (today 2025 that would be around £21,000).

 In 1865 he purchased a driving clock for the equatorial.

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