From: Illustrated and
Descriptive Catalogue and Price-List of Optical
Meteorological, Mathematical, and Engineering
Instruments. Manufactured and Imported by James
Prentice & Son, 176 Broadway, New York (no
date)
"Microscope, 12 inches in height, with lacquered brass pillar-stand
having bronzed base, and joint affording any angle of inclination, coarse and fine
adjustment of focus effected, respectively, by rack and pinion and micrometer
screw, attached condenser for illumination of opaque objects, stage-diaphragm,
extension draw-tube, two triplet objectives and two eye-pieces, affording powers of 75
to 800 diameters ; including two prepared objects, four standard glass slips, four concave
centers and covers, a pair of brass, forceps, one ivory disk, two dissecting needles
and one knife; in French polished mahogany box."
* Note that the microscope shown on this page is identical to the one described above with the exception that the main focus is by sliding tube rather than by a rack and pinion.
While the microscope
shown here is unsigned, a number of examples of
this type of microscope are known with different
signatures as follows:
Radiguet &
Fils, Optns 15Bd des Filles du Calvarie,
Paris
Radiguet et
Massiot, 15 Bld des Filles du Calvaire a
Paris
Maison de
L'ingr. Chevallier, Optn, Pont Neuf 15,
Paris
J. Bianchetti,
Marseilles