V.14 Veil Nebula in Cygnus Product:Postcard It shows an advertisement for

It shows an advertisement for land to be let on a lease of 99 years

mirrored inscription provides the date of 'September 16 1757'

View with figures in the foreground

A rear view of the cast iron grinding tool used to produce the speculum (mirror) of the reflecting telescope at Birr Castle

V.14 Veil Nebula in Cygnus Product:Postcard It shows an advertisement forPlate 11 figure 34 for the paper 'Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833', by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. The object is illustrated with a scale of 0 30 minutes at the lower edge, not on the published plate. Inscribed verso, in pencil, 'An innumerable multitude of stars cover the