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A 19th-Century lacquered and oxidised-brass Swift-pattern compound binocular microscope,
unsigned, with rack and pinion focusing, fine adjustment, prism, circular stage with slide clamps and plano-concave mirror, the limb raised on a horseshoe stand, with seven eyepieces, four objectives, live box, polariser and sub-stage condenser with iris diaphragm, bull's-eye condenser stand (lens missing), and a collection of slides, in mahogany case with bone/ivory key escutcheon -- 15½in. (39.4cm.) high
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unsigned, with rack and pinion focusing, fine adjustment, prism, circular stage with slide clamps and plano-concave mirror, the limb raised on a horseshoe stand, with seven eyepieces, four objectives, live box, polariser and sub-stage condenser with iris diaphragm, bull's-eye condenser stand (lens missing), and a collection of slides, in mahogany case with bone/ivory key escutcheon -- 15½in. (39.4cm.) high
See Illustration