Accession No

3823

Brief Description

hand-held split-field polarimeter, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1900 (c)

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, silver, oxidized brass); glass; wood; cloth (velvet)

Dimensions

length 300mm; diameter 100mm box length 379mm; breadth 126mm; height 113mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Tesseract, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA, 09/11/1991.

Inscription

‘Carl Zeiss, Jena.
No 572.’ (on barrel)

Description Notes

Silver plated brass polarimeter with swing-away polariser, rotary analyser with degree circle and divided 0 - 90˚ - 0 - 90˚ - 0 numbered by 10 graduated to 1; vernier scale to measure to minutes of a degree. Rotatable glass solution tube with brass ends. Fitted case with blue velvet lining and brass hinges and hook fasteners. Tie-on paper label inside the box reads, 'CI Co Ltd dec 1925'.

Condition fair; tarnishing on polariser; complete

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