What was the type of your first telescope?

Question: What was the type of your first telescope?
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  education,
  inspiration,
  personal
Asked by blossom1999 to Alan on 10 Mar 2014.
- Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 10 Mar 2014:
  
  It was a small refracting telescope. This uses a lens to collect the light, and brings it to a second lens called an eyepiece, which passes it into your eye.
  
  It took me a year of saving my pocket money to buy it when I was at school, but it was worth it!

Question: What was the type of your first telescope?