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A FINE DOUBLE-REFLECTING COMPOUND MICROSCOPE ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF EDMUND CULPEPER, CIRCA 1725-30


unsigned, with rayskin-covered main tube, green paper-lined draw-tube with embossed gilt decoration and inked focus staging lines and numbers, turned lignum vitæ eye-piece with brass dust slide supported over circular brass objective stage by three legs, and secured by three legs to circular lignum vitæ base with concave mirror at centre, contained within pyramidal case with lower drawer containing some accessories. The microscope -- 14½in. (37cm.) high (closed); the case -- 18in. (46cm.) high


Very similar examples to this can be viewed in the Golub Collection (No.181) located at the University of California, and the History of Science Museum, Oxford (No. 43576), which appears to use the same embossed designs and focus line numbers on its draw tube.


£8000-12000 additional images online at www.charlesmillerltd.com 59 199.


A FINE LACQUERED-BRASS COMPOUND MICROSCOPE BY JOHN CUFF, LONDON, CIRCA 1745


signed around the aperture on the cruciform stage J. Cuff London Invt. & Fecit, the 7in. main tube with eye-piece dust slide, rectangular-section pillar engraved with objective settings 1-6, clamp screw and fine-screw focusing adjustment, substage mirror, secured to a base with internal accessories, drawer containing six numbered objectives; swivelling platform lens; ebony loup; bone handled tools; tweezers; platform forceps; ivory canister of slide spares; contained in pyramidal storage case with top handle and internal drawer containing fish-plate; wet box; Bonnani spring stage; Lieberkuhn reflector; substage cone; fish skin-covered case of numbered bone slides with original specimen interest etc., the box -- 17½in. (44.5cm.) high


£5000-8000


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