Accession No

1536

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope, wenham binocular type; made by F. L. West; circa 1850

Origin

31 Cockspur Street; Charing Cross; London; England

Maker

West. F. L.

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

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

Dimensions

box height 467mm; depth 200mm; breadth 224mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

‘F L West
31 Cockspur Street
Charing Cross’

Description Notes

Brass; claw foot; 2 uprights to pivoting limb; mechanical stage with 2 knurled brass screws; oxidised brass supports; threaded aperture for substage components; racked bar for substage; tubular tailpiece with swinging plano / concave mirror.
Bar limb; pair of knurled coarse focus screws either side of limb; fine focus screw with long steel screw behind body; wenham binocular body with a slide out tray for image splitting prism; rack focussing for eye pieces. 3 eyepieces (one extra shade); camera lucida; one eyepiece with slot for micrometer; micrometer slide; bulls eye condenser on a stand; double nosepiece; live box; 2 objectives in brass boxes signed by West 2” and 1”; plus a 4/10” box empty; 1 1/8” by Smith & Beck; 1 1/5” by R & J Beck; 1 4” by J & C Robbins; 2 parabolic reflectors both with stops; analyser and polarisers in brass boxes; iris diaphragm and rotating filter holder with 4 apertures and 2 filters by R & J Beck; parabolic lieberkuhn in a case; Beck’s vertical illuminator in brass case with a cast plaque ‘Smith Beck & Beck / Patent / London / 68’ (2 unidentified accessories, by Browning & Hitchley). Fitted wooden box.

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