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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,
signed on the body-tube W. Ladd & Co., Beak St., W & 199 Brompton Rd., S.W., focusing by fusee chain drive, with fine-adjustment screw, the body-limb with axis raised on an oxidised-brass braced tubular stand, with mechanical stage, sub-stage condenser and plano-concave mirror, with two eyepieces, three objectives, bull's-eye condenser and other items, in fitted mahogany case with swing brass carrying handle -- 16¼in. (41.2cm.) high
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signed on the body-tube W. Ladd & Co., Beak St., W & 199 Brompton Rd., S.W., focusing by fusee chain drive, with fine-adjustment screw, the body-limb with axis raised on an oxidised-brass braced tubular stand, with mechanical stage, sub-stage condenser and plano-concave mirror, with two eyepieces, three objectives, bull's-eye condenser and other items, in fitted mahogany case with swing brass carrying handle -- 16¼in. (41.2cm.) high
See Colour Plate