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Specialty 25 x 30 mm Brass Spyglass Telescope | 
 enlarge | Brand: Tasco
Category: Sports
Buy New: $31.99
New (2) from $31.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7797
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
MPN: 1AGST
Model: 1AGST
UPC: 046162090145
EAN: 0046162090145
ASIN: B0001DZ2F4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Magnification: 25x | | • | Telescope Type: Hand-held | | • | Length: 5.25-14in. | | • | Objective Lens Diameter: 30mm | | • | Weight: 1 lbs |
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Product Description
A classic, hand-held telescope with a gleaming brass finish and leatherette trim. Extends from 5.25" to 14" and includes an attractive leatherette carrying case with wrist strap and belt loop.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Exellent first buy! August 14, 2008
C. Lucas (Sweden)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an exellent buy if this is your first brass spyglass. For being so sheap this sure is good quality, every part of it is verry accurate. I really do have seen a lot worse. People who do not CARE to examine and learn for themselves OR are not used to handle and use spyglasses may have some problem getting the focus right. In any case the focus is really sharp when you do get it right.
You need to twist the smallest tube to change the focus depth. Pracise make perfect!
Even thou its not verry big in size i found that it was as "big" and heavy as i would tolerate for easy carrying and easy use in a larp. You may carry it in a small beltbag, and it fits nicely in your palm.
The only bad thing about it was the fake-leather. I bought it to use on a Pirate LARP (Live Action Role Playing) and i had to remove the plastic "leather" and sew on a new real piece of darkbrown leather myself.
Besides this, modern brass items are often lacquerd with a special clear brass protective lacquer, witch makes it impossible to corrode. I wandted that antique feeling since im using it on larps. So in order to get that old look to it I took everything apart (total disensembling), and polished off the lacquer using a grinding machine with a verry fine polishing rondell, and reassembled it. Afer two months it looked like a movie prop, corroded (darkened) and beautiful.
However I do not recommend anyone to do this UNLESS you are a craftsman who knows how to work metals and have basic (proffessional) polishing skills. If you are going to do this anyway, be extra careful to remove the glass parts so that you dont accidentally polish them! And be careful not to grind away any metal or you may destroy it completley.
There are more than five, exactly the same, spyglasses here on Amazon.com they look exactly the same and comes with the same fake-leather carrying case. So im leaving this rating on a fiew of them. They are all manufactured in the same place, probably china, and distributed to the different vendors.
I hope my rewiew was any help to you!
Have a Good Larp!
:D
 Pretty little spyglass September 25, 2005
Elson Alves (Salvador, BA - BRA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ok guys, it is a spyglass, not a telescope.
A real pretty little piece, I bough it as a gift for friends, as some nostalgic piece to remind us that distance isn't a problem.
Very well done, classical look. Only downside: the case looks cheap.
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