Accession No

0393

Brief Description

compound microscope, side pillar type, by Louis François Dellebarre, Dutch, 1785

Origin

Netherlands

Maker

Dellebarre, Louis François

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1785

Latest Date

1785

Inscription Date

1785

Material

glass (mirror); metal (brass)

Dimensions

height 510mm; breadth 230mm; depth 210mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased from R. Middegales, Paris, on 01/04/1927.

Inscription

“DELLEBARRE * / 1785”

Description Notes

Brass; square and jointed racked pillar; compass joint to 3 arched feet; sliding shoe with hinged and compass jointed swinging piano/concave mirror; sliding shoe with hinged and compass jointed substage condenser; shoe with pinion onto rack for circular stage; two lugs for stage forceps etc.; 3 small apertures in rim; pin at head of pillar fits into socket, with clamp on a sliding shoe which fits onto a horizontal bar; brass ring with clamp round cylindrical body; snout and screw fitting objective marked IIIII; screw thread for lieberkuhn; signed collar push fits into body; second collar with knurled ring and screw thread for field lens (missing). third collar in 5 screw fitting parts with compound eyepiece marked C/EII & EI/3/EI; screw fit finial cover.

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