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Porter Garden Telescope and paintings

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Roger W. Sinnott (9 April 2007). "Porter Garden Telescope Changes Hands". Sky & Telescope, published by Sky Publishing. Retrieved 22 April 2012.

www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/porter-garden-telescope-changes-hands/

"It’s not every day that a Porter Garden Telescope goes on the auction block — try once a decade or so... A bidder from the Internet quickly snapped it up for $18,000...

"Russell W. Porter, founder of the amateur-telescope-making movement in America, designed and patented this fully operational 6-inch f/4 telescope in the 1920s. Magazines like House Beautiful and Country Life carried ads for them. Their ornate bronze castings were meant to stay outdoors as garden statuary, the owner simply detaching the primary mirror and eyepiece-diagonal assembly to take in out of the weather.

"Perhaps fewer than 60 garden telescopes were ever made. Porter biographer Berton C. Willard knows of only 14 that have certainly survived, one being serial number 49 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. (But if you’ve “gotta have one,” take note: A fully functioning reproduction of the garden telescope should be available this summer.)"

Please add information about the Porter Garden Telescope. -71.174.180.148 (talk) 21:23, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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