Accession No

3229

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope, by John Benjamin Dancer, English, 1855 (c)

Origin

England; Manchester

Maker

Dancer, John Benjamin

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1855

Latest Date

1855

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass; wood (ebony, other)

Dimensions

box breadth 253mm; depth 215mm; height 425mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased, 08/1985.

Inscription

‘J. B. Dancer
Optician
Manchester’ (signed on foot)
Trade card in box (trimmed and re-pasted).

Description Notes

Brass; tripod foot; double pillar; Lister limb mechanical stage with sliding slide rest; tail piece with swinging plano/concave mirror; double headed coarse focus; lever fine focus; draw-tube graduated 10-100 by 10; fitted wooden box with 8 drawers, each with an ebony handle; eyepiece; 1.5 and .75in objectives; detachable diaphragm for 1.5”; .25in correction objective; draw-tube erector; stage forceps, live box; substage polariser and draw tube analyser; single substage diaphragm; dark well; stand condenser; one dissecting needle and one scalpel.

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