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Wooden Box for Lens, 1960?

Inventory Number 13182


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13182

Item type
Object
Provenance
Royal Microscopical Society
Other inscriptions
On lid of cigar box ' Modern lens (?1960) placed in this box 3 August 1988 G.L'E.T.'
Dimensions
Diameter: 139mm Height: 18mm Weight: 77g
Inventory No
13182

Description

Lens is housed in a wooden cigar box which is stamped with an image of a man smoking whilst leaning on a barrel, there is a tall ship in the background of the image. There is a thin paper in the base of the box which features a spider and spider web design.