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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound binocular microscope,
signed on the horseshoe stand SWIFT & SON. 81, TOTTENHAM COURT RD. LONDON.W., with rack and pinion coarse focusing and fine adjustment, two prisms, triple nose-piece, the circuit stage with fully mechanical aldjustment, marbled-finish slide carrier, silvered circle with vernier, sub-stage with rack adjustment and iris diaphragm, the plano-concave mirror on articulated arm, the stand and axis with clamp lever, with some accessories, in mahogany case -- 22.1/2in. (57.1cm.) high
See Colour Plate 12
signed on the horseshoe stand SWIFT & SON. 81, TOTTENHAM COURT RD. LONDON.W., with rack and pinion coarse focusing and fine adjustment, two prisms, triple nose-piece, the circuit stage with fully mechanical aldjustment, marbled-finish slide carrier, silvered circle with vernier, sub-stage with rack adjustment and iris diaphragm, the plano-concave mirror on articulated arm, the stand and axis with clamp lever, with some accessories, in mahogany case -- 22.1/2in. (57.1cm.) high
See Colour Plate 12