- Brief Description
- Wooden case for microscope and accessories
- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- W. Watson & Sons Ltd.
- Provenance
- Purchased in 1993 by Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (1938-2020) Waynflete Professor of Chemistry and Head of Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford until he retired in 2005. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978 and knighted for his contributions to the field of organic chemistry in 1997.
- Other inscriptions
- Your ref Our ref RB/1R Date SEPT / 1980 / VAN HEURK MICROSCOPE / C/W MONOCULAR & BINOCULAR / MOUNTINGS and ACCESSORIES [Attached brown luggage style label covered in cling film(?). Your ref, Our ref and Date all pre-printed on label, remainder handwritten in ink
- Physical material
- Mahogany
- Object type
- microscope
- Dimensions
- Height: 48.5cm Weight: 4.5kg
- Inventory No
- 18593.3
- Accession Number
- 2022-81
Description
Mahogany case with brass handle on the top and dovetail joints. Attached to the handle is a brown paper label with the order details and description of the item. The case is lockable and the key is present, it is attached by string to the handle. The door is hinged on the right with 2 hinges. Inside on the top left corner is a large drawer, which is about 3/5th the width of the box and the full depth, and sits inside a wooden frame, inside are eyepieces in pre-cut slots. Below this is a smaller drawer, with is about 1/3 the width of the box and the full depth. It has a support for the bottom left and top right corners and contains objectives in pre-cut slots. Both drawers have small white handles. There are various supports for the accessories. The monocular eyepiece has a slot in the back left corner. Next to this is a support in which the camera lucida is currently stored, below this is an oval slot for the brass box with a swivel beam to hold it in place. In the right corner there is a felt covered shelf and a shelf below this in which one the rotating nosepiece is currently stored. Just inside the door on the left is a support with a semi-circular cut out and there is a piece of wood with a circular hole in the centre, coloured black, attached to the shelf the monocular is resting on. There is a strip of green velvet on the right side roughly central. There are several pieces of support which are no longer attached and signs inside of where they should be.
