Details
A fine mid 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound binocular microscope,
by Smith & Beck 6, Coleman St LONDON No. 972, with rack and pinion focusing to the eyepieces, the double body-tube with rack and pinion coarse focusing and micrometer fine adjustment, the mechanical sliding stage with complex and fully adjustable sub-stage condenser with iris diaphragm, with sliding and swivelling double-sided plano-concave sub-stage mirror, on two tapering pillar supports to swivelling circular base with tripod foot, fitting into the mahogany base-board, in the original fitted mahogany case (glass in door replaced with stained board), with spare body-tube and numerous accessories in two boxes including two spare eyepieces, four objectives in brass canisters signed on the lid by Smith & Beck, three other objectives, an Abbe condenser, a stage-mounted bull's-eye condenser, a lieberkuhn, a double nose-piece attachment, tweezers, live-box, curved polished mirror for stage-attachment, stage forceps, various prismatic attachments and some other items, with brass and enamelled iron carrying handle, and key -- 191/8in. (48.9cm.) high; with a later ebonised oak stand with a space for the mahogany base and electrical fitting for a brass attachment with two lamps, raised on four brass screw feet -- 19½in. (49.5cm.) long; and eighty-two glass-mounted slides in wooden trays in a pine box and one hundred and thirty-five glass and card-mounted slides in a stiff card box, some amateur preparations, others by professional preparers such as W. Watson & Sons, E. Wheeler, C. Baker, A.H. Baird and others, the specimens covering a wide range of subjects from animal life to vegetable life to geological or chemical samples and micro-photographed text; together with a copy of MICROSCOPE SLIDE MAKING by Charles E. Heath F.R.M.S.
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