Accession No

1802

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope, attributed to Giovanni Battista Amici, Italian, circa 1850

Origin

Italy [based on attributed maker]

Maker

Amici, Giovanni Battista [attributed]

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (steel, brass); wood (mahogany)

Dimensions

box length 313mm; breadth 198mm; height 72mm

Special Collection

Heywood collection

Provenance

Purchased from the H.Heywood collection under estate duty exemption benefit with the assistance of a Science Museum grant-in-aid.

Inscription

Description Notes

Folding tripod foot; forward facing foot carries swinging plano concave mirror; racked trapezoidal pillar carries massively constructed shoe with stage; knurled coarse focus screw; long fine focus moving screw stage of blued steel; small stage with forward motion by knurled brass screw spring clips; screw fit substage condenser; compass joint at head of pillar to bar-limb; screw fit body tube; 6 objectives, 5 with dust caps numbered ‘1, 2, 3, 5, 6’; some with initial letters ‘M’, ‘G’, ‘R’, various lenses in brass cells all interchangeable; substage condenser, single lens; articulated arm carrying a focussing illuminator fits onto base of shoe; push fit eye piece [not original - does not fit screw thread at the head of the body].
Dividing objectives; mechanical stage, movement in one direction only; substage condenser in a focussing mount.
Fitted mahogany box.

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