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An early 19th-century lucernal microscope
signed and dated on the focusing sliding plate J. Dovaston Fecit 1798, the pyramid-shaped projection box supported by two rectangular shaped pillars from the mahoghany base, the stage supported on a shaped pillar with rack and pinion lateral adjustment, fore and aft adjustment by screw rod, with large condenser lens on slide bar, the projection box with sliding cover and frosted glass screen and magnifying lens, with a mahogany case of accessories including, five numbered objectives, three numbered lenses, live-box, cone, swivel concave mirror, specimen-tube, sliders, frog-plate and other items, the case 12.1/2in. (31.7cm.) wide, the microscope and case contained in a fitted pine carrying case 26.1/2in. (67.3cm.) wide
See Colour Plate 16
signed and dated on the focusing sliding plate J. Dovaston Fecit 1798, the pyramid-shaped projection box supported by two rectangular shaped pillars from the mahoghany base, the stage supported on a shaped pillar with rack and pinion lateral adjustment, fore and aft adjustment by screw rod, with large condenser lens on slide bar, the projection box with sliding cover and frosted glass screen and magnifying lens, with a mahogany case of accessories including, five numbered objectives, three numbered lenses, live-box, cone, swivel concave mirror, specimen-tube, sliders, frog-plate and other items, the case 12.1/2in. (31.7cm.) wide, the microscope and case contained in a fitted pine carrying case 26.1/2in. (67.3cm.) wide
See Colour Plate 16