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A late 18th-Century brass Cuff-type compound monocular microscope,
signed on the cruciform stage B. COLE Maker at No. 136 Fleet Street London, with sliding pillar focusing, with fine-screw adjustment and clamp, the body-tube located on a limb, the eyepiece with dust slide, the pillar supported on the plinth base by scroll support and shaped plate, with mirror (glass lacking), with a range of accessories including six objectives, a quantity of ivory sliders, a live-box, a talc container, a bull's-eye condenser, a frog-plate, sprung stage, and other items, in pyramid-shaped mahogany case with brass carrying handle -- 19.1/4in. (48.9cm.) high
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signed on the cruciform stage B. COLE Maker at No. 136 Fleet Street London, with sliding pillar focusing, with fine-screw adjustment and clamp, the body-tube located on a limb, the eyepiece with dust slide, the pillar supported on the plinth base by scroll support and shaped plate, with mirror (glass lacking), with a range of accessories including six objectives, a quantity of ivory sliders, a live-box, a talc container, a bull's-eye condenser, a frog-plate, sprung stage, and other items, in pyramid-shaped mahogany case with brass carrying handle -- 19.1/4in. (48.9cm.) high
See Colour Illustration