Bruder Teiner Field Glasses
Bruder Teiner Field Glasses
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- Description
- This is a brass instrument with black leather covering the barrels. It has a center focus. The objective lenses are 45 mm in diameter. The length is 93 mm (closed). The “BRUDER TEINER CARLSBAD” signature on the eyecups refers to a firm that was in business in the second half of the nineteenth century, and that was associated with Josef Teiner (fl. 1860-1890), a man known largely as a mineral collector. Carlsbad, a famous spa town in Bohemia, is now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic.
- Given to the Smithsonian by Mrs. Leonard Wood, these glasses were probably used by her husband, the eminent army physician.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- binoculars
- field glasses
- date made
- ca 1880
- user
- Wood, Leonard
- maker
- Bruder Teiner
- place made
- Czech Republic: Karlovarský Kraj, Karlovy Vary
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 6 in x 3 in; 12.7 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- AF.36018
- accession number
- 105588
- catalog number
- 36018
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Optics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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