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Lens with mount
    • Setting:
      Room XIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      second half 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass, wood, brass
    • Dimensions:
      lens diameter 137 mm, height 360 mm
    • Inventory:
      760
    • Lens with mount (Inv. 760)

Biconvex converging lens mounted in a wooden ring. The ring is hinged on a brass fork fixed to a turned wooden base. Resembles lenses inv. 761 and inv. 764.