Rare pair of Civil War period field glasses with carved ivory bodies, eyepieces and focus wheel and brass frame. The field glasses have a large, 2-inch diameter objective lens and are approximately 3 3/4-inches in length. The lens tubes are engraved "G" and "II". The field glasses are not marked but were probably European made. Ivory field glasses are very rare.

Very good. The ivory bodies both have an age crack that extends the full length of the tube. The ivory eye-pieces have several hair-line age cracks. The lens are dusty and the brass frame has a mellow age patina. This is a rare and very attractive set of ivory mounted field glasses. From the Will Hoffeld Collection.