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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound binocular microscope,
signed on the stand ROSS LONDON NO. 5357, with rack and pinion coarse and micrometer fine focusing, double nose-piece signed Ross London No. 1084, with circuit stage, engraved silvered horizontal circle, mechanical slide adjustment, the stage arranged to rotate in the vertical plane in addition to the horizontal axis, with rack and pinion adjustment to the sub-stage, with abbe condenser, with large plano-concave mirror, the axis supported by two columns from the base, with a quantity of accessories including three objectives by C. Baker, a 4-inch objective by Newton & Co. 5 Fleet Street London, seven various eyepieces and a quantity of other accessories, in fitted supplementary case, all contained in the original mahogany carrying case, with inset brass carrying handles -- 21.1/8in. (53.7cm.) high
See Colour Plate 12
signed on the stand ROSS LONDON NO. 5357, with rack and pinion coarse and micrometer fine focusing, double nose-piece signed Ross London No. 1084, with circuit stage, engraved silvered horizontal circle, mechanical slide adjustment, the stage arranged to rotate in the vertical plane in addition to the horizontal axis, with rack and pinion adjustment to the sub-stage, with abbe condenser, with large plano-concave mirror, the axis supported by two columns from the base, with a quantity of accessories including three objectives by C. Baker, a 4-inch objective by Newton & Co. 5 Fleet Street London, seven various eyepieces and a quantity of other accessories, in fitted supplementary case, all contained in the original mahogany carrying case, with inset brass carrying handles -- 21.1/8in. (53.7cm.) high
See Colour Plate 12