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CARL OSTERLAND, CIRCA 1870
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A GERMAN BLOWPIPE ANALYSIS SET
Carl Osterland, circa 1870
signed on the ivory assay scale Carl Osterland in Freiberg, a Tennant-type blowpipe with accessories including: coloured glass, sample minerals, pestles and mortars, ivory fleaglass, crucibles, scales, tripod stand and others.
13in. (33cm.) wide in case.
Carl Osterland, circa 1870
signed on the ivory assay scale Carl Osterland in Freiberg, a Tennant-type blowpipe with accessories including: coloured glass, sample minerals, pestles and mortars, ivory fleaglass, crucibles, scales, tripod stand and others.
13in. (33cm.) wide in case.
Literature
Burchard, U. 'The History and Apparatus of Blowpipe Analysis', The Mineralogical Record, vol. 25 no. 4 (1994), pp.251-77.
Special notice
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