A very unusual electric microscopical bullseye or lamp
600 euros
Circa
1910 or 1920
Country of manufacture
UK and Ireland
Description
A quite unusual form, which seems unrecorded, of a electric microscopical bullseye with lamp. The instrument is not signed, but certainly from UK or US. The datation is not easy but we can date it from 1910s’ or 1920s’.
A large bi-convexe lens is mounted on a sliding brass arm behing which is put a electrical lamp.
The main microscope lamp is mounted on a stand which can be rotated horizontaly and verticaly.
Very unusual design.
The lamp measures 33 cm.
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Dealer information
Le Zograscope
Established by Alexandre Piffault in 2014 and based in Paris at 5 rue de Condé, 75006, very close to Odéon, Le Zograscope specializes in antique and rare books in Science, Medicine and Technology, and rare antique instruments in the same fields. We have especially a strong interest in early and continental microscopy, early and special mathematical/drawing instruments, medical and surgical instrument, and rare technology.
