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A large late 19th-Century lacquered and oxidised brass compound monocular microscope,
2y W. WATSON & SONS 313 High Holborn LONDON no.4849, in a mahogany carrying case -- 39.3cm. (15½in.) high
See Colour Illustration (page 75)
The eyepiece is mounted on a graduated draw tube, which slides from an graduated extension tube with rack and pinion adjustment. The barrel has a triple nosepiece and rack and pinion focusing. It is raised on a shaped oxidised-brass limb with a micrometer adjustment screw. The fully mechanical stage has a circumference scale with vernier, substage condensor mount and plano-concave mirror. The limb tilts on raised tripod legs with a clamp and brass feet. There is no eyepiece; a Zeiss B objective; and a stray drawer with three preparations. The mahogany case is from a different instrument.
2y W. WATSON & SONS 313 High Holborn LONDON no.4849, in a mahogany carrying case -- 39.3cm. (15½in.) high
See Colour Illustration (page 75)
The eyepiece is mounted on a graduated draw tube, which slides from an graduated extension tube with rack and pinion adjustment. The barrel has a triple nosepiece and rack and pinion focusing. It is raised on a shaped oxidised-brass limb with a micrometer adjustment screw. The fully mechanical stage has a circumference scale with vernier, substage condensor mount and plano-concave mirror. The limb tilts on raised tripod legs with a clamp and brass feet. There is no eyepiece; a Zeiss B objective; and a stray drawer with three preparations. The mahogany case is from a different instrument.
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