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Portable telescope & stand in sharkskin cases – Dollond.

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...

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

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

~GOOD ELLIS AQUATIC MICROSCOPE~

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...

Gregorian telescope by Springer, Bristol

A fine 3″ Gregorian telescope with good original lacquer, the stand has similar design features as ones we have had by Adams. Joshua Springer worked 1759-1809   Read More...

Library lens in shagreen case as seen on the Edward Scarlett trade card

A rare 18th century oval magnifying lens in the original black shagreen case, I have only ever seen a couple of these, and  one appears on the trade card for Edward Scarlett see image. The lens has a fault within the glass but is all there. One in the science museum calls it an Edward Scarlett type reading lense  First half of the 18th century  Ivory registration VAR3BCTA   Read More...

“THE MOST IMPORTANT VICTORIAN BOOK ON CINEMATOGRAPHY” (1899), ASSOCIATION COPY

HOPWOOD, Henry V.; BULL, Lucien (his copy) Living Pictures: Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working. With a Digest of British Patents and Annotated Bibliography Published by The Optician & Photographic Trades Review, London, 1899 8vo; pp. i xii (ads and prelims), 275, [1, errata], xiii xxvii (ads). A note opposite the title page signed by Stanley Bowler, dated 20 April 1967, indicates that this copy was once in the possession of Lucien Bull (1876-1972), the French-Irish inventor, ‘chronophotographer’ and assistant to Étienne-Jules Marey. Read More...

Spectroscope in case – John Browning.

Engraved to the body, John Browning, London’. Nice condition. Read More...

1860’s trepan elevator by Weiss

An 1860’s trepan elevator by Weiss with an ebony cross-hatched handle. Length: 14,5 cm.  Read More...

1860’s Metacarpal saw by Weiss

A French metacarpal saw or finger saw by Weiss of c. 1863. Made of steel with an ebony cross-hatched handle with some damage. Length: 18,5 cm. Read More...

C1925 Heitz-Boyer’s bone clamp

Nice example of a Heitz-Boyer’s bone clamp in good working order. No maker indicated. Kirkup (THE EVOLUTION OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, 2005:308) dates this instument c1925, presumably based on an entry in Down Bros. catalog.–see last image. Length: Length: 14″ or 35cm as shown.   Read More...

~FINE GLASS AND STEEL MORPHINE SYRINGE-CASED C.1900~

A glass and steel, knurled and demarcated personal morphine syringe as was the norm in Edwardian times. Both the acid etched glass and steel plunger are marked  5, 10 , 15 (probably 0.5 to 1.5 cc.) for doseage depending on need/desire. Single matching needle. Very fine condition and working. Black card case measures 7 x 3 x 2 cm. with gold embossed name and address in lid and etched on the barrel of the syringe “Allen & Hanburys” with  London Read More...

A field microscope – insectoscope

A field microscope – insectoscope   In good working condition 7,5 cm pressed 5,5 cm ca 100 years old price € 125.- Read More...