A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound binocular microscope,

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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound binocular microscope,
by Smith, Beck & Beck, 31 Cornhill Street, London, No. 3731, with rack and pinion coarse and micrometer fine focusing, mechanical stage, sub-stage condenser and plano-concave mirror, the body limb raised on twin shaped supports from the Y-shaped stand, with bull's-eye condenser, 1/5, 2/3., and 1½in. objectives, a lierbekuhn and four eyepieces, other accessories including a graduated monocular body-tube, in fitted mahogany case -- 16½in. (41.9cm.) wide

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