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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass and black enamelled compound monocular microscope,
signed on the foot W. Watson & Sons Ltd 313 High Holborn London 66535, in a fitted mahogany carrying case -- 36.3cm. (14¼in.) high
The lacquered-brass barrel has a triple nosepiece, rack and pinion focusing, micrometer fine adjustment and a sliding eyepiece tube with two graduations for with and without nosepiece. The curved limb also supports the fully mechanical stage, complex substage condensor mounting and plano-concave substage mirror. It tilts on an axis between two short upright sections of the black enamelled tripod foot. Accessories include: four eyepieces, Swift & Son 2/3in. and in. objectives, a Leitz no.7 objective, a Baker 2in. oil objective, a Watson 1½in. objective and a Watson oil condensor, all in cannisters. The case has a key and a leather carrying handle and the gilt Watson lion logo on the door;
And two wooden boxes of amateur slide preparations (approx.270), and two small boxes each of twelve preparations of textile fibres and plant sections; a brass student's pillar microscope; and a wooden box with two syringes and a quantity of needles (7)
signed on the foot W. Watson & Sons Ltd 313 High Holborn London 66535, in a fitted mahogany carrying case -- 36.3cm. (14¼in.) high
The lacquered-brass barrel has a triple nosepiece, rack and pinion focusing, micrometer fine adjustment and a sliding eyepiece tube with two graduations for with and without nosepiece. The curved limb also supports the fully mechanical stage, complex substage condensor mounting and plano-concave substage mirror. It tilts on an axis between two short upright sections of the black enamelled tripod foot. Accessories include: four eyepieces, Swift & Son 2/3in. and in. objectives, a Leitz no.7 objective, a Baker 2in. oil objective, a Watson 1½in. objective and a Watson oil condensor, all in cannisters. The case has a key and a leather carrying handle and the gilt Watson lion logo on the door;
And two wooden boxes of amateur slide preparations (approx.270), and two small boxes each of twelve preparations of textile fibres and plant sections; a brass student's pillar microscope; and a wooden box with two syringes and a quantity of needles (7)
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