- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Edmund Culpeper
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970 Purchased by Royal Microscopical Society at the sale of Prof. John Quekett's effects 1861.
- Primary inscriptions
- "Culpeper Fect."
- Object type
- microscope
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 19mm Height: 165mm
- Inventory No
- 41824
- Accession Number
- 1970-101/part
Description
Silver and ivory screw-barrel microscope with black hide covered wood box lined with red fabric. Box contains three ivory sliders, two with four windows, one with six windows, and a brass and glass slider that is blank.
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