Cuff-Type Compound Microscope with Case and Accessories

The copper alloy pillar consists of two bars, held together by two sleeves, standing in a socket on the wooden box base. A scrolled strut is attached to the socket. A copper alloy ring on an arm attached to the upper sleeve supports the body tube. The sleeves slide on the pillar for coarse focusing and a vertical screw at the rear of the pillar raises and lowers the body for fine focusing. The eyepiece has blackened eyecup with a sliding dust cover. The body holds a field lens and the lower, narrow end of the body has an external thread to take objectives. The cruciform stage has a pinhole, a keyhole slot, with a leaf spring underneath and a slot with a socket for and accessory on a pin. The circular stage hole is recessed. The base and pyramid case each have a drawer for accessories. The accessories are six objectives, a fishplate, a live box, stage forceps, a Lieberkuhn in a can, a Lieberkuhn carrier, a circular spring stage, an ivory talc box holding mica disks and copper alloy split rings, three ivory sliders and a bull's-eye lens on a copper alloy pin.