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A rare late 18th-Century French box microscope,
the box plinth base of banded rosewood marquetry construction, the upper and front faces with moulded edge, with drawer below for accessories, the interior with adjustable reflecting mirror, hinged at the centre and adjusted by two butterfly-wing nuts located on each side, the front with rotating brass light condenser with three appertures, the compound monocular microscope unsigned, with lignum-vitae and brass mounted lizard skin covered body-tube located on the vertical pillar with rack and pinion adjustment for focusing, the vertical pillar of knife-edge cross section steel, the drum-shaped base arranged to adjust in azimuth with lock screw, the stage formed by two shaped side platforms with moulded and pierced decoration and twin steel spring clamps, the bull's-eye condenser with swivel action, mounted on the upper platform base, with various accessories including a lignum-vitae four-specimen-holder slider, two four-specimen horn sliders, a horn spatula, two three-specimen bone/ivory sliders in card case, and three other sliders, each with specimens, a collection of glass plates, a pair of brass tweezers, and eight unnumbered objectives, the microscope -- 12in. (32.4cm.) raised position
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the box plinth base of banded rosewood marquetry construction, the upper and front faces with moulded edge, with drawer below for accessories, the interior with adjustable reflecting mirror, hinged at the centre and adjusted by two butterfly-wing nuts located on each side, the front with rotating brass light condenser with three appertures, the compound monocular microscope unsigned, with lignum-vitae and brass mounted lizard skin covered body-tube located on the vertical pillar with rack and pinion adjustment for focusing, the vertical pillar of knife-edge cross section steel, the drum-shaped base arranged to adjust in azimuth with lock screw, the stage formed by two shaped side platforms with moulded and pierced decoration and twin steel spring clamps, the bull's-eye condenser with swivel action, mounted on the upper platform base, with various accessories including a lignum-vitae four-specimen-holder slider, two four-specimen horn sliders, a horn spatula, two three-specimen bone/ivory sliders in card case, and three other sliders, each with specimens, a collection of glass plates, a pair of brass tweezers, and eight unnumbered objectives, the microscope -- 12in. (32.4cm.) raised position
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