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Box of Microscope Slides, English, c.1865

Inventory Number 10052


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.10052

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Object type
Box
Dimensions
Height: 40mm Width: 156mm Depth: 92mm Weight: 208g
Inventory No
10052

Description

Hinged wooden box with a clasp to open, covered in textured grey hide with blue velvet lining on inside lid and blue square pattern paper lining on base. Box contains 15 glass slides (1 broken) mainly artefactual or crystalline in subject matter. Slides held vertically by pair of comb-like wood brackets along sides. Identifying paper stickers on all but three slides.