A rare 18th Century lacquered brass chest microscope, signed on the cruciform stage NAIRNE LONDON, the body tube with graduated nosepiece, location limb, square faced pillar, with numbered graduations, screw rod focusing, screw clamp, cruciform stage with bulls eye, with swing arm mirror, limb on compass joint, with accessories including six numbered objectives, eight numbered slides, spring stage, live box, rare live box objective, cone diaphragm, lieberkuhn in brass box, fishplate, stage forceps, tweezers, ivory talc box, in green velvet lined mahogany case with routed feet - 11½in.wide

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A rare 18th Century lacquered brass chest microscope, signed on the cruciform stage NAIRNE LONDON, the body tube with graduated nosepiece, location limb, square faced pillar, with numbered graduations, screw rod focusing, screw clamp, cruciform stage with bulls eye, with swing arm mirror, limb on compass joint, with accessories including six numbered objectives, eight numbered slides, spring stage, live box, rare live box objective, cone diaphragm, lieberkuhn in brass box, fishplate, stage forceps, tweezers, ivory talc box, in green velvet lined mahogany case with routed feet - 11½in.wide

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Edward Nairne b.1726-d.1806, worked from his premises at 20 Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange. The business expanded in 1774, when Nairne took his former apprentice Thomas Blunt as partner. This instrument probably dates before this union. Nairne was on of the foremost instrument makers of the mid to late 18th Century boasting such makers as Jesse Ramsden in his workshops. This instrument is a particularly fine example of Nairnes work and is supplied with an original instruction pamphlet

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