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Box and Parts for Miscellaneous Microscopes, English, Late 18th Century

Inventory Number 90927


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.90927

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned.
Dimensions
Weight: 3.1kg
Inventory No
90927
Accession Number
?1944-1/part

Description

Box and parts for miscellaneous microscopes, English, late 18th century. Non-contemporary oak box (.1) [probably for drawing instruments] with a hinged lid, a locking mechanism, velvet facings and containing miscellaneous parts, including copper alloy fishplate (.2), an objective (.3), four copper alloy eyepieces of various sizes and a shallow wooden rack with cut-off corners, the largest of the eyepieces sits in the middle of the rack (.4), two tightening screws and a washer with a screw (.5), a black wooden microscope slide "No 6" with solid specimens (.6), a copper alloy dish (.7) and two handles for adjusting a telescope(?), one with a shiny shaft and an ivory rectangular plate at one end (.8) and another with a dull shaft and a two-pronged blunt fork (.9)