This microscope is by F. W. Schieck, Berlin. It has the serial number 7982, which would date its manufacture to around 1884. It is in the continental style constructed with lacquered and nickel plated brass and having a dark green iron cast base. Among the accessories supplied with this microscope are four objectives, two eyepieces, an aperture stop holder with two stops, a triple objective changer, and a sub-stage focusing condenser having a slide of apertures below.