HISTORICAL ACHROMATIC TELESCOPE

"Officer of the Watch" type telescope signed for the original retailer "Gieves Ltd. No. 9287" with leather wrapped barrel, single draw tube fitted with extending sunshade and lens cover - engraved with original owner's name "A. T. Courtney" - Commander Anthony Tosswill Courtney, OBE, RN, 1908-1998 is listed on Wikipedia, his career including serving on HMS Renown and with North Atlantic Escort Service during WWII based in Halifax, later with Soviet Section of British Naval Intelligence, as a member of Parliament was believed to have lost an election due to Russia's KGB producing fake photographs - closed length 45.1cm (17 3/4in)