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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,
signed on the Y-shaped base J.B. Dancer Optician Manchester, with rack and pinion focusing and fine-screw adjustment, mechanical stage, the body limb raised on twin tapering pillar supports, the lower limb incorporating a plano-concave mirror, with a bull's-eye condenser, a quantity of slides in two drawers, prismatic and other attachments, three objectives, live box, forceps and maker's trade label, in fitted mahogany carrying case with brass swing handle -- 16¾in. (42.5cm.) high; a Charles Baker microscope catalogue, circa 1920, a Flatters & Garnett, Ltd. Microscopical Preparations catalogue, dated 1927, various correspondence, three other Flatters & Garnett, Ltd. booklets, and a Watson Microscopes and Accessories catalogue, 33rd Edition (A Lot)
See Colour Plate 3
signed on the Y-shaped base J.B. Dancer Optician Manchester, with rack and pinion focusing and fine-screw adjustment, mechanical stage, the body limb raised on twin tapering pillar supports, the lower limb incorporating a plano-concave mirror, with a bull's-eye condenser, a quantity of slides in two drawers, prismatic and other attachments, three objectives, live box, forceps and maker's trade label, in fitted mahogany carrying case with brass swing handle -- 16¾in. (42.5cm.) high; a Charles Baker microscope catalogue, circa 1920, a Flatters & Garnett, Ltd. Microscopical Preparations catalogue, dated 1927, various correspondence, three other Flatters & Garnett, Ltd. booklets, and a Watson Microscopes and Accessories catalogue, 33rd Edition (A Lot)
See Colour Plate 3