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A brass Culpeper-type microscope by William Harris & Co, English, first quarter 19th century,
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Description
- height 37.5cm., 14¾
signed Wm Harris 50 High Holborn London, the square wooden base with plano-concave mirror, and supporting three scrolled brass legs holding a circular stage supporting three further scrolled legs which hold the body tube, the compound body tube with rack and pinion focusing, with drawer to the base containing accessories including a fish plate, spring stage, five objectives (six in total), stage forceps, bone specimen slides and cylinder, contained within a pyramidal wooden case with part William Harris trade label applied to the interior door