This spyglass has an achromatic objective, a four-element erecting eye piece, and wood body with three brass draw tubles. The "Utzschneider, Reichenbach und Fraunhofer in Benedictbeurn" inscription refers to a firm in Bavaria that was in business, as such, between 1809 and 1814.
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