A VICTORIAN LACQUERED BRASS 3.25-INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPEUNSIGNED, MID 19th CENTURY The 42-inch tube with rack and pinion focus adjustment and telescopic eyepiece assembly threaded into a plate at the end of the tube, fitted with additional 'star finder' scope and mounted via rotating pivoted axis support onto a column turned upright, with socket for the steady arm over three folding cabriole legs, in original mahogany box with two additional eyepiece tubes.The box 145cm (45ins) long, 18cm (7ins) high, 26cm (10.25ins) deep.