A fine mid 18th-Century shagreen-covered English drum microscope,
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A fine mid 18th-Century shagreen-covered English drum microscope,

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A fine mid 18th-Century shagreen-covered English drum microscope,
signed B:MARTIN LONDON, the brass eyepiece mount with sliding cover atop a turned and threaded lignum vitae section, the gilt-stamped green paper-covered draw-tube with lignum nose and brass objective mount, the cutaway pasteboard cylinder body with scalloped brass mounts, brass stage with glass disc and substage mirror -- 15.9cm. (6¼in.) high
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