Microscope and Accessories in Case, by Philip Carpenter, London

This copper alloy instrument is carried on a compass joint on a turned pillar that stands on a folding, flat tripod base. The limb is a rectangular bar, at the top of which an arm supports a sleeve holding the body tube. A telescopic strut extends from the base to the top of the sleeve. The body can be racked up and down within the sleeve by a mill-edged knob on the side. The eyepiece screws into a tube that pushes into the body(.1).

An extending tube with an eyepiece can screw onto the top of the body, increasing its length (.2). The rectangular spring stage has a curved, pivoting arm to hold superstage accessories. Another curved arm, attached below the stage, can be positioned to hold a substage plano-concave mirror or a superstage condensing lens.

The instrument is held in a fitted mahogany case which is padded in the lid with brown velvet (.21). The case also contains eight objectives, one of which is attached to a nose that screws into the lower end of the body (.3), four Lieberkühn (.4), a spring stage (.5), a copper alloy can with a pin hole (.6), a lens with a threaded setting (.7), two specimen chambers on copper alloy plates (.8), a copper alloy can of rouge (.9), a condenser lens (.10), a plano-concave mirror (.11), a copper alloy talc box (.12), stage forceps (.13), a hand magnifier on a copper alloy and ivory handle (.14), six ivory sliders (.15), eight wooden sliders with specimens of insects and plants (.16) and fifteen opaque sliders consisting largely of insect specimens (.17), a stage tool with cork discs attached to either end of a metal arm (.18), a live box (.19), two lenses in copper alloy tubes (.20). Also attached to the base of the case is a wooden and glass wet cell.