for your curiosity cabinet not usual to find and to have :) in your collection Engraved as “Berge London”, and “Late Ramsden” on the next line, the initial letters of these two lines are next to the eyepiece, ie on the opposite side to the standard format that was mostly used after about 1790. But Matthew Berge was just a bit of a traditionalist, and stuck to the old format, because he took over from Ramsden in 1800. He worked at 199 Piccadilly, maybe until 1817 – he died in 1819: but we don’t know for how long he leveraged off the Ramsden name and quoted “Late Ramsden” on his scopes. Then the business was taken over by a further two ex-Ramsden employees who had also worked for Berge, called Worthington & Allan: Nathaniel Worthington continued this business until 1851. quality as you can see on pictures look at all pictures to see all as this no surprise when you receive important as you imagine for perfect shipping : )))) shipping costs include the fact that the large very strong package will perfectly protect the item in micro polystyrene beads so as not to break anything during transport no combine shipping