Culpeper Type Microscope, with Accessories and Case

Culpeper Type Microscope, with Accessories and Case.

The instrument stands on a wooden box base with a concave mirror mounted at its centre. Three shaped copper alloy legs support the stage and body tube. The stage has two pinholes, a keyhole slot, a bracket to hold pins horizontally and a recessed stage hole. Two spring clips, shaped to hold glass phials, are attached to the underside of the stage. The body tube is pasteboard covered in ray skin. The draw tube is pasteboard covered in green vellum with marks for the focusing positions. A lignum vitae collar at the top on the tube holds a field lens and the fitting for the eye lens, screws onto it. The cylindrical, lignum vitae nose screws into a disk the base of the body and has an external thread for objectives. The base has a drawer for accessories. The accessories comprise five objectives, a black disk in a lignum vitae setting, a bull's-eye lens on an arm, a lignum vitae live box, stage forceps, fish tube, copper alloy forceps and a copper alloy specimen wheel with eight windows and black and white disks. The pyramid case is mahogany.