On Thursday, 24 March 2016 19:13:25 UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 6:51:56 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:52:30 UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 10:51:34 AM UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 06:16:53 UTC+1, RichA wrote:

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Posted by "He who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

With fairly little effort and a few dollars worth of contact paper and metallic spray paint one could take almost any old telescope and get much the same effect, although it wouldn't be the work of a famous artist.

There was some Brit outfit a while back "retrofitting" decent telescopes in
brass and charging a notable premium.

The other artwork on the site looks more creative and "antique." Refractors and Newts haven't changed much in outward appearance in the last couple of hundred years so almost all can be made to look old, antique, vintage, Steampunk, etc., with the right paint and some detailing.

I can tell when someone has modified a 1970's Japanese-style focuser.
Why pay so much for a piece of crap like that when you can buy a REAL antique refractor of considerably size?