- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Primary inscriptions
- "PLAYER'S / MEDIUM / NAVY CUT" "100% TOBACCO / BALMORAL / Aristocrates / 10 CORONAS" "UNITED KINGDOM OPTICAL / COMPANY, LIMITED. / LENS MANUFACTURERS / MILL HILL, LONDON, N.W.7"
- Inventory No
- 15279
Description
Wooden drawer of microscope parts including: two circular mirrors; a rectangular mirror; four copper alloy lenses; 10 copper alloy microscope accessories, including body tubes and a lens cap; a thick glass slide, possibly part of a stage; two copper alloy rectangular plates, both possibly part of stages; a painted metal stage; two circular rotating aperture controls; a copper alloy stage with two glass slides; four unidentified metal microscope parts; an extending microscope stem; four wooden accessories, possibly from a microscope case; a hinged wooden Balmoral Aristocrates box containing 44 unidentified microscope parts; a card United Kingdom Optical box containing a red cylindrical leather covered box, two copper alloy cans containing a shaft of numbered plugs, a copper alloy cylindrical can which does not unscrew, and a Player's Medium Navy Cut tobacco tin containing 17 circular resin blocks of different colours, some with metal encapsulated in them.



