Compound Microscope with a Box of Accessories, by W. Burucker, German, c. 1800

A pasteboard drum compound microscope with a rectangular box containing accessories.

Pasteboard drum with a brass spring-stage. The drum is covered in decorated paper, has a window above the stage over which is the word BURUCKER in gold lettering. The are two marks on the body tube labelled N.5 and N6 in ink. The drum houses the field lens.

Pasteboard body tube containing a field lens, which has wooden fittings for the eyepiece and objective. The are two marks on the body tube labelled N.5 and N6 in ink.

Wooden attachment which screws into the body tube. The dust cover screws onto this attachment.

Wooden dust cap.

Wooden and brass-mounted objective which screws onto the body tube.

Wooden and brass-mounted objective which has a thread to screw onto the body tube. Contained in the rectangular box.

Wooden slide which has a recessed hole, flanked by black and white discs. There is a label 'a' written in ink next to the recessed hole. Contained in the rectangular box.

Wooden slide with four glass discs for specimens, fixed in place with metal rings. There are specimens present. Contained in the rectangular box.

Wooden slide with four glass discs for specimens, fixed in place with metal rings. There are specimens present. Contained in the rectangular box.

A rectangular softwood box, covered with the same paper as the microscope, with a sliding lid. The box contained the three slides and one of the objectives.