18th Apr, 2023 10:00

Photographica & Cameras Auction

 
  Lot 8
 

8

A late 19th Century lacquered brass and black-painted Wenham Compound Binocular Microscope

Sold for £440
Estimated at £150 - £250


 
A late 19th Century lacquered brass and black-painted Wenham Compound Binocular Microscope, serial no. 2632, with two pairs of eyepieces, rack and pinion eyepiece and body tube focusing, double nosepiece, four objectives in cans, rotating circular stage, sub-stage wheel of stops, mirror, on Swift-type base, in mahogany case, 400mm wide, circa 1880s, G, one retaining pin missing from stage