Walter's Optics and Fancy Toys - 185 1/2 W Main St
Timothy Walter, 42 years old, sells fine cameras, microscopes, binoculars, and telescopes, as well as scale-model trains and ships and superbly-painted toy soldiers.
Walter is an active amateur astronomer and a good friend of Prof. Billings at the University. His older brother, Harvey Walter, the celebrated New York mystic and scholar, occasionally visits New Jerusalem, staying with Timothy in the latter's apartment.
One of Walter's telescopes is of an odd design. Walter bought it cheaply at an auction. The accompanying manuscript (written in German) claims that the lenses were abnormal, but when he tested the instrument Walter found nothing unusual. Still, he considers it a collector's item, and he will not part with it for less than $80.
Also an accomplished commercial photographer, Walter has evolved some dry-ice techniques of great value to astronomers, and he might be able to help photograph what's usually unphotographable.
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