Accession No

5844

Brief Description

microscope slide, Abbe test plate, by Carl Zeiss, German, 4/4 19th Century

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

hide (leather); cloth (velvet); glass; metal (silver, white metal)

Dimensions

box: length 91mm x width 41mm x depth 12mm Slide: 75mm x 25mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchsed from Tesseract, Box 151, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706, on 18/10/2001.

Inscription

On box: TESTPLATTE
nach ABBE
c.zeiss jena
on slide: Abbe’s Carl Zeiss
Test - Platte Jena

Description Notes

microscope slide: Abbe test plate by Zeiss, German late 19th C

This example has six circular areas with ruled silver strips, bearing cover glasses of 0.09, 0.12, 0.15, 0.18, 0.21 and 0.24 mm thickness. It is designed for testing the performance of microscope objectives. In original brown leather case with blue velvet trimming. Case marked with gold embossed lettering signed “Testplatte Nach Abbe, C. Zeiss, Jena.”

condition good.

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