Description

Universal Microscope by R & J Beck of London, 1867.

Serial number: 4757.

Circular base marked: UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE – R & J BECK LONDON

In original fitted case with brass handle: H: 33.5 cm.

Literature:  Richard Beck’s The Achromatic Microscope, 1865. 

For a similar Universal Microscope by Smith, Beck & Beck see the collections of:

The Science Museum, London. (Sir Henry Wellcome’s Museum Collection) Object number: A18435. 

Billings Microscope Collection at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington DC.

The Golub Collection, University of California, Berkeley.