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Simple Algensucher-type Microscope in Case, Possibly French, c.1900-25

Inventory Number 37770


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.37770

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Deposited by the Royal Microscopical Society with their collection.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Inventory No
37770

Description

Simple, Algensucher type microscope. This is a small, copper alloy hand-held microscope with the barrel painted tan. At one end is a chamber for the specimen, over which screws a top with a small bubble lens. A threaded cap with single aperture screws into the opposite end of the barrel.

The instrument is stored in a cylindrical cardboard case covered in black paper.