Accession No

3191

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope, by R. Field and Son, English, 1860 (c)

Origin

England; Birmingham

Maker

R. Field and Son

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1860

Latest Date

1860

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass

Dimensions

h 235 mm; lenses and slide in bag length 118 mm; breadth 102 mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Christie’s, South Kensington, London, England, 13/12/1984.

Inscription

706
R. FIELD & SON
BIRMINGHAM

Description Notes

Oxidised brass claw-foot stand; limb pivots between stand on two lugs projecting below the stage; tubular limb; swinging plano/concave mirror push-fits onto the limb; square state with circular aperture and sliding slide rest; either side of the limb, operating on a rack on the limb; bar limb to body with lever operated fine focus; screw fit collar; push fit eye piece and screw fit objective.
Fitted wooden box with sliding drawer; spare eyepiece; 2 objective cases marked 1 IN, and ‘1/4 + 1/2 in’, total of 2 objectives and 2 eyepieces; wheel of diaphragms; pair of tweezers.

Condition: fair, Soldering holding microscope to base has given way so instrument is in 2 pieces (16/4/97).
incomplete, ‘WITH A RANGE OF ACCESSORIES IN A MAHOGANY CASE’ only 4 lenses and tweezers extant (17/7/2002).

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