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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,
signed on the stand NACHET ET FILS 17, rue St.. Sverin Paris, with geared coarse focusing, fine adjustment, polarising and other attachments, prismatic attachment, the stage with two spring-loaded slide clamps, tangent-screw fine azimuth adjustment, knurled wheel adjustment to enable the stage to be moved about an axis, the sub-stage condenser raised and lowered by friction bar and lever adjustment, the plano-concave mirror enclosed within an octagonal frame and mounted on a folding articulated arm, the microscope axis raised on twin column supports over the shaped stand, with numerous accessories including lieberkuhn, bull's-eye condensers, polarising attachments, objectives, slide plates, a micrometer plate engraved Millimtre en 100 parties, a double nose-piece, a supplementary case containing five objectives with mountings for three others, and a slide maker's outfit (scissors lacking), in fitted part purple plush and pink silk-lined mahogany cabinet with single brass carrying handle -- 15in. (40cm.) wide (area of lock shows signs of forced entry)
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signed on the stand NACHET ET FILS 17, rue St.. Sverin Paris, with geared coarse focusing, fine adjustment, polarising and other attachments, prismatic attachment, the stage with two spring-loaded slide clamps, tangent-screw fine azimuth adjustment, knurled wheel adjustment to enable the stage to be moved about an axis, the sub-stage condenser raised and lowered by friction bar and lever adjustment, the plano-concave mirror enclosed within an octagonal frame and mounted on a folding articulated arm, the microscope axis raised on twin column supports over the shaped stand, with numerous accessories including lieberkuhn, bull's-eye condensers, polarising attachments, objectives, slide plates, a micrometer plate engraved Millimtre en 100 parties, a double nose-piece, a supplementary case containing five objectives with mountings for three others, and a slide maker's outfit (scissors lacking), in fitted part purple plush and pink silk-lined mahogany cabinet with single brass carrying handle -- 15in. (40cm.) wide (area of lock shows signs of forced entry)
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