A late 18th Century brass Cuff-type compound microscope, unsigned, the body tube located on a limb from the rectangular section pillar, with screw-rod focusing, adjustment screw and clamp, tapered body tube with long single nose-piece, cruciform stage with forceps and bull's-eye, the shaped foot with scroll support and concave mirror, on mahogany plinth base with accessory drawer containing six numbered objectives, glass and bone slides, in shaped pyramid mahogany case - 16¼in. high