Accession No

3205

Brief Description

microscope accessories, eight objective lenses and two keys, by various makers, 1900 (c)

Origin

England; London [W. Watson and Sons]; and Austria; Vienna [C. Reichart]; and Germany; Jena [Carl Zeiss]

Maker

W. Watson and Sons Reichert, C. Carl Zeiss

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, steel); glass

Dimensions

box length 159mm; breadth 85mm; height 56mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Pathology Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.

Inscription

‘PARA
2/3 IN [WW MONOGRAM]’
P.U.C.
43’ (on one)
‘2/3 IN 28 n.a. 3
W.Watson & Sons Ltd
London PATH UNIV CAMB No100’ (on second)
‘1/6 IN 74 na 17. W.Watson & Sons. Ltd
London
PATH UNIV CAMB No99’ (on third)
‘PARA
1/6 IN
[WW monogram]
PATH
UNIV
CAMB 65
6577’ (on fourth)
‘No3
C. REICHERT
WIEN
Path.Lab.
Camb
No1’ (on fifth)
‘No7a
C. REICHERT
WIEN
Path.Lab.
Camb.
No5’ (on sixth)
‘C. ZEISS PATH. UNIV.
CAMB. 13
3492’ (on seventh)
‘UNIV CANT
197
C.ZEISS
4553’ (on eighth)
‘Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Apert 1.20 Patent’ (???; 7-2-2000)
‘PATH UNIV CAMB’ (?; 7-2-2000)

Description Notes

Eight objective lenses.
Four Watson objectives; two by Reichert; two by Zeiss.
2 dark (???; 7-2-2000) marked ‘Ernst...Patent’ (?), ‘PATH...CAMB’. Brass mounts with screw fit steel nosepieces with a (?) spherical lens and a dark glass (?not here; 7-2-2000).

Condition: fair.

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