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Object Type: lens grinding/polishing tool
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lens grinding/polishing tool
ID Number
PH.315158.336
catalog number
315158.336
accession number
215541
Description
Circular iron tool from the shop of Henry Fitz (1808-1863), America’s first successful commercial telescope maker. It was preseumably used to figure lenses.
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Currently not on view
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