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Glass with Central Stop in Collar for the Petrological Microscope, by J. Swift & Son, London, 1908

Inventory Number 77697


Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970 Presented by to the Royal Microscopical Society by the executors of Charles Richard Mapp FRMS on the 17th of April 1956
Physical material
Glass
copper alloy
Object type
Microscope
Dimensions
Diameter: 50mm Height: 23mm Weight: 68g
Inventory No
77697
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Glass with central stop surrounded by blackened copper alloy cone and flat copper alloy collar, believed to be the immersion paraboloid.