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A late 19th-Century lacquered-brass folding travelling microscope,
signed on the slender stand Swift & Son, 81 Tottenham Court Road, London W, with rack and pinion focusing and fine adjustment, double prism box, double nose-piece, circular stage, slide clamps, sub-stage with condenser, fine gear adjustment, iris diaphragm and centring screws, the lower limb with plano-concave mirror, in fitted mahogany case with .1/12in., .1/6in and 3in. objectives, a set of sub-stage accessories including a red selenite, a mica and blue selenite sub-stage attachments, three eyepieces, a prism, a bull's-eye condenser, specimen forceps and other items, in mahogany case with outer leather cover embossed Pateman Maker Redhill -- 12in. (30.5cm.) wide
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signed on the slender stand Swift & Son, 81 Tottenham Court Road, London W, with rack and pinion focusing and fine adjustment, double prism box, double nose-piece, circular stage, slide clamps, sub-stage with condenser, fine gear adjustment, iris diaphragm and centring screws, the lower limb with plano-concave mirror, in fitted mahogany case with .1/12in., .1/6in and 3in. objectives, a set of sub-stage accessories including a red selenite, a mica and blue selenite sub-stage attachments, three eyepieces, a prism, a bull's-eye condenser, specimen forceps and other items, in mahogany case with outer leather cover embossed Pateman Maker Redhill -- 12in. (30.5cm.) wide
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