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07 Nov

Medical Shagreen Etui, c. 1800

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An English medical Shagreen Etui English of c.1800. The etui is unsigned but instruments are bearing different makers’ names, including gum lancet marked Thompson, forceps marked Savigny, with silver marks to handle, silver mark to pick, case covered in green polished shagreen with white metal. In the collection of the science museum there are many objects by the firm of Savigny. The company was active between 1720-1895. Length: 15 cm. Find out more on www.vanleestantiques.com Find out more on www.vanleestantiques.com Read More...
07 Nov

Naval hardwood pursuader / cosh.

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19th c hardwood ‘persuader’, 15 inches long. Read More...
06 Nov

Robert Hooke ‘almost’ discovers oxygen

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  HOOKE, Robert. Lampas: or, Descriptions of some Mechanical Improvements of Lamps & Waterpoises. Together with some other Physical and Mechanical Discoveries. London: Printed for J. Martyn, 1677.   FIRST EDITION OF HOOKE’S FOURTH CUTLER LECTURE. Hooke (1635-1703) made important contributions to a remarkable variety of fields. He was appointed curator of experiments to the Royal Society of London in 1662 and elected a fellow the following year. In 1664 John Cutler, a city merchant, founded the Cutlerian lectures for Hooke, Read More...
05 Nov

c1800 POCKET BRASS MICROSCOPE , MAY BE by W & S JONES , WITH ITS CYLINDRICAL CASE AND ACCESSORIES ref 3

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THERE IS A SMALL DENT ON DRUM , NOTHING SIGNIFICANT . ALL LENSES ARE GOOD , 2 x FORCEPS. NO NAME ON MICOSCOPE , BUT I WAS INFORMED THAT IT WAS MADE BY W & S JONES ?       Read More...
05 Nov

EXCELLENT EARLY CONDITION POCKET MICROSCOPE COMPLETE , WITH ITS CASE ref 4

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MICROSCOPE IS IN EXCELLENT FUNCTIONING CONDITION . LOOKS LIKE MICROSCOPE HAS HARDLY BEEN USED NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN, ALL GOOD.   Read More...
05 Nov

c1800, AN EARLY WETHERING MICROSCOPE , FOCUSING BY SLIDING STAGE, LENS EACH END, ref 16

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THIS IS ONE OF THE EARLIER WETHERING MICROSCOPE . THE STAGE PLEASE NOTE IS LOOSE  AND SLIDES UP OR DOWN   TO FOCUS. ONE LENS SCREWS OFF SMOOTHLY.  Read More...
04 Nov

POCKET FIELD MICROSCOPE C1860, WITH ACCESSORIES, GOOD COND.

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NOTHING BROKEN, NO REPAIRS. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR DESCRIPTION Read More...
04 Nov

~FINE SIMPLE THEODOLITE by ABRAHAM c.1860

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Signed “Abraham & Co. Liverpool (1851-1875), this simple surveying instrument exhibits some unusual features of the day. Surmounted above a 10 x 4 cm. brass plinth (for plane table or field tripod-2 cm. threaded hole) are a large bubble level and telescope (sighting tube) in parallel, each being 23 x 2 cm. Above them is a 6 cm. diameter compass with paper dial divided into single degrees with a full 360 degree circle and cardinal points. Needle on brass pivot Read More...
02 Nov

C1740 BARREL BRASS MICROSCOPE WITH ACCESSORIESIN SHAGREEN CASE , ALL IN GOOD COND. ref 26

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CASE 3.75 IN. x 2.5 IN. x 1.5 IN.    SHAGREEN IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, HINGE FIRM ,CLOSES WELL. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR DESCRIPTION.   Read More...
02 Nov

Portable telescope & stand in sharkskin cases – Dollond.

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A good clean 3 draw telescope by Dollond with red mahogany barrel measuring 9.5 inches when closed and 28.25 inches fully drawn with a crown / flint main lens of 41 mm. The first draw is segmented into three parts with a four lens arrangement and the eyepiece has a drop down sun shade. The telescope is damage free and very clean. The tripod column can be unscrewed to reveal a steel corkscrew for the user to fix to a Read More...
02 Nov

ref 23 BRASS SMALL GOULD TYPE MICROSCOPE WITH ACCESSORIES , RATCHET WORKS SMOOTHLY,BOX MOUNTED C 1810

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NOTHING BROKEN , NO REPAIRS,  SOME STAINING TO MIRROR.  NO NAME ON MICROSCOPE. BOX 4 IN. x 3.25 IN. CLOSES WELL   Read More...
02 Nov

~GOOD ELLIS AQUATIC MICROSCOPE~

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A good simple microscope with 2 Lieberkuhned objectives (beads intact) and exhibiting aquatic (side to side) motion/focussing via a round rotating rod inside of the upright. The stage inserts by means of a chamfered ear and the other ear is for the hinged stage forceps. Stage insert is a concave glass with a tiny edge chip (no B/W ivory disc). The stem is cylindrical with a boxed out area with hole for the mirror stem. The 2 inch, single Read More...
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