Mechanical stage with rotating spring super-stage
Monocular microscope: Abraham, Liverpool c. 1840
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Mechanical stage with rotating spring super-stage
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A lower section of the case houses prepared slides dated 1847.
An identical example is located at the Science Museum, London signed : Carpenter & Westley, 24 Regent Street, LONDON (cat. ref: 25-78). An additional example of this microscope signed James Robinson, Dublin was offered at the June 29, 1995 Christie's auction sale as lot 190.
See a discussion of the work of the Liverpool instrument maker Abraham Abraham and his partnership with J. B. Dancer
An Abraham Abraham advertisement from 1857
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