Signed: Made for McAllister & Co., Philadelphia

Imported case-mounted French microscope, c.1844

Made for McAllister & Co., Philadelphia. c.1844

case mounted French microscope. Signed Made for McAllister & Co., Philadelphia. c.1855

An illustration of this microscope, reproduced below, was extracted from the 1844 catalog of the Parisian optician Buron, Rue des Trois Pavillons No. 10,  suggesting that this is the firm that made the microscope.

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