Accession No

0205

Brief Description

compound microscope, side pillar type; by W & S Jones; English; circa 1800

Origin

30 Holborn; London; England

Maker

W & S Jones

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1800

Inscription Date

Material

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

Dimensions

box length 326mm; breadth 248mm; height 100mm; microscope height 431mm; depth 250mm; breadth 230mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Stewart Whipple through T. H. Court on 21/03/1925. This object was part of the Crisp Collection, and was sold as Lot 314 at the auction of this collection held on 17/02/1925 at the Steven’s Auction Rooms.

Inscription

‘W & S JONES, 30 Holborn, LONDON’

Description Notes

Brass; folding tripod foot; brass pillar; compass joint to square-sectioned limb with rack; stage moved along rack by knurled screw; square stage with circular aperture and fittings for stage forceps etc.; substage swinging concave mirror fitted to limb with clamp; substage condenser; body tube screws to arm at the head of the stage; arm with rack operated by knurled screw, and whole turns on head of pillar giving ‘aquatic’ motion; eyepiece with 2 lenses screws to body with field lens; push fits to collar with snout and further lens. Fitted wooden box. Stage condenser lens; stage forceps; 3 boxwood slides; frog plate; 4-object live slide box; 3 4-object ebony slides, 3 4-object ivory slides; 4 lieberkuhn objectives; 1 lieberkuhn; ivory talc and ring box; 2 objectives with brass dust caps; 2 pairs of tweezers; sprung stage; wheel of 6 objectives; cone; 2 compass microscopes with ivory handles, one with lieberkuhn objective; 2 speculum holders.

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