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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,
signed on the Y-shaped foot NEWTON & CO 3, Fleet Street Temple Bar LONDON, the barrel with micrometer adjustment above the nosepiece mount, threaded to unscrew for storage from the short limb from the main pillar, within which the triangular-section support moves via rack and pinion, with mechanical stage and plano-concave mirror, and accessories including two eyepieces, Newton ¼, 1, 2 and 3in. objectives in signed brass canisters, nosepiece and substage polarizers, table-standing bull's-eye condensor, and a substage aperture disc, the fitted mahogany carrying case with a good label on the inside for Newton & Co, a small slide drawer with some unused slides, and brass carrying handle -- 28cm. (11in.) high; and another 19th-Century lacquered-brass monocular microscope, signed on the foot and the main column BAKER 244 High Holborn LONDON, the body-tube with a Zeiss objective and sliding in a sleeve above the circular stage, with micrometer fine adjustment and plano-concave substage mirror, the carrying case with leather handle and a plaque for MSE LONDON -- 27.5cm. (12 7/8in.) high
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signed on the Y-shaped foot NEWTON & CO 3, Fleet Street Temple Bar LONDON, the barrel with micrometer adjustment above the nosepiece mount, threaded to unscrew for storage from the short limb from the main pillar, within which the triangular-section support moves via rack and pinion, with mechanical stage and plano-concave mirror, and accessories including two eyepieces, Newton ¼, 1, 2 and 3in. objectives in signed brass canisters, nosepiece and substage polarizers, table-standing bull's-eye condensor, and a substage aperture disc, the fitted mahogany carrying case with a good label on the inside for Newton & Co, a small slide drawer with some unused slides, and brass carrying handle -- 28cm. (11in.) high; and another 19th-Century lacquered-brass monocular microscope, signed on the foot and the main column BAKER 244 High Holborn LONDON, the body-tube with a Zeiss objective and sliding in a sleeve above the circular stage, with micrometer fine adjustment and plano-concave substage mirror, the carrying case with leather handle and a plaque for MSE LONDON -- 27.5cm. (12 7/8in.) high
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