The Royal Spy Glass
Anon
Genre: | Advertisement, Spoof |
Subjects: | Light, Instruments, Observation |
Advertises a 'new Telescopic Spy-Glass', possessing powers that can penetrate everything except 'deal boards' and enabled a letter which Queen Victoria was 'reading in her yacht to be read at the further end of Kingstown harbour'. | |
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