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Three 19th-Century lacquered-brass microscopes,
one signed on the foot Pillischer London No.1007 , the barrel with draw-tube focusing unthreading for storage from a short limb with rack and pinion and micrometer adjustment from the rectangular-section main limb, with simple stage with moving handle and plano-concave mirror, between two A-frame uprights from the V-shaped base, with two eyepieces and a Watson ¼in. objective and two unmarked, in a fitted mahogany case -- 18.4cm. (7¼in.) wide; one signed on the foot Husbands & Clarke Denmark St BRISTOL, the barrel with micrometer adjustment, unscrewing for storage from a short limb from the main column with rack and pinion adjustment, simple stage with substage condensor and aperture disc and plano-concave mirror, between two shaped uprights from the V-shaped foot, with one eyepiece, two unmarked objectives in canisters, live box and a quantity of amateur and professional preparations, in a fitted mahogany case -- 24.8cm. (9¾in.) high; and an unsigned drum microscope with circular stage in cutaway sleeve, concave mirror, one eyepiece and one objective -- 23.8cm. (9 3/8in.) high (3)
one signed on the foot Pillischer London N
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