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Screwbarrel Microscope in Case, English, c. 1725-50

Inventory Number 41254


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.41254

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Deposited by the Royal Microscopical Society with their collection.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Inventory No
41254
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Small handle-free screwbarrel microscope housed in a small fishskin-coated box, with three objectives in mounts, one of which is in place on the microscope . Also present is a copper alloy wet-cell, three ivory sliders and an ivory talc box.