A Powell & Lealand No.3 Microscope, c.1859, English, signed to top limb 'Powell & Lealand 170 Euston Road, London', standing on typical ‘Powell & Lealand’ tripod with large trunnions supporting body, large plano-concave mirror on Powell single-sided support, fully mechanical stage with X-Y control with substage accessory mount, triangular bar with rack and pinion focusing, limb with struts supporting back of the body tube, fine focus wheel to rear of limb with date engraved below, with 16 accessories including: a camera lucida eyepiece, a complex substage achromatic condenser with integral stops and aperture, low power eyepiece, medium power eyepiece, high power eyepiece, dark wells, bar tool, live box, substage wheel of stops, pre-RMS threaded 1" objective and can, pre-RMS threaded ¼" objective and can, pre-RMS threaded â…›" objective with correction collar and can, Leiberkuhn for the 1" objective, tweezers and large table bullseye with chamois leather cover for lens, all in fitted French polished mahogany cabinet, case height 41cm
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A Benjamin Martin Universal-Type Compound Microscope, c.1760, English, unsigned, base comprising a flat-folding tripod base with socket to accept plano-concave mirror gimbal peg, centre of foot supports square section brass pillar, engraved with objective focusing levels, triform stage mounted on square collar with screw clamp and fine focus screw to rear, top of square column terminates in winged screw to support brass compound tube, body tube incorporating a Martin lens above objective, twin drawer tube, eyepiece with sliding dust cover, in fine sharkskin case lined with red silk velvet with brass escutcheon and handle, containing six numbered objectives, live box, Bonnani stage, silver Leiberkuhn and case, magnifier, fish plate, wet cell, stage forceps, talc box and glass tube set of sliders, case 27cm wideFootnote:For an identical instrument unsigned but with original bill of sale from Benjamin Martin see Joseph Priestley's microscope at the Science Museum: https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/joseph-priestleys-microscope-lens/
A Rare Quartz Crystal Camera Obscura(?) Lens, c.1850, French, signed 'Lentille en Quartz Foyer 15cm Ed Lutz Paris', brass lacquered ring with retaining ring to rear, believed to be a camera obscura lens, in chamois leather bag, lens tested under polarised light as Quartz crystal and not glass, diameter 8.5cm
A Magic Lantern Kaleidoscope & Slide, c.1900, English, body engraved 'C & F Darker, Patentee's London' brass body incorporating two angled mirrors, with condensing lens at rear and focusing lens at front, complete with an original kaleidoscope mechanical slide with glass cell containing broken glass sections
WW2 era RAF/RAAF cockpit Reflector Gunsight MKII S. Blackened circular mount with central orange lens with cross hairs & single propeller shadow. Rubber crash pad showing weathering and top angled reflector glass. Grey painted Air Ministry brass issue label serial #2676, Reflector Sight Mark IIS. Complete in its fitted wooden transit box. Very good condition. These were the type used with the Hurricane & Spitfire fighters during WW2, being reminiscent of the dogfight scenes in the movie ‘The Battle of Britain’.
An incredibly rare original WWII Second World War Lancaster bomber Bomb Aimer's panel light ' Cockpit Lamp Mk 2'. This lamp would've been mounted just above the bomb aimer's panel to aid sight during night raids. The lamp features a movable cowl that controls the amount of light, and still features its original red glass lens. The lamp measures approx; 13cm long when extended. Supplied within its original box, with original inner card. The box has been autographed exclusively for this event by 617 Squadron Bomb Aimer's John Bell & George Johnny Johnson ( Dambuster ). A rare surviving relic and important piece of aviation history.
Collection of Photographic Equipment including MPP Enlarger with Thomson-Houston Lens plus a Box of Enlarger Lens, Three Boxes of Darkroom Equipment including Film Develepment Tanks, Developing Trays, Measuring Cylinders, Print Masks, Clockwork Timer, etc all from 1950/ 60's, Kodaslide Projector
A Primotar E 1:3.5/50 camera lens together with a Pentacon 2.8/135 lens, a Tessa 2.8/50 Carl Zeiss Jena DDR lens, a Minolta MD50mm 1:1.7 lens, a Tessar 2.8/50 Carl Zeiss Jena DDR lens, a Hanimar Auto S 1:2.8 F=135mm lens, a Photax Paragon 1:2.8 F=35mm lens, a Makinon MC auto zoom 1:2.8-4.5 F=28-80mm lens, a Soligor wide-auto F:2.5 F=24mm lens and a Tessar 2.8/50 Carl Zeiss Jena lens
A Hoya 1:2.8 F=28mm camera lens together with a Ricoh 1:2 50mm lens, a Mamiya Sekor 1:2 F=50mm lens, a Chinon 1:17 F=55mm lens, a Pallas auto 1:2.8 F=135mm lens, an auto Albinar Special 1:2.8 F=35mm lens, an auto Chinon 1:1.7 F=55mm lens, a Soligor 1:2.8 F=28mm lens, a Minolta zoom 28-85mm 1:3.5 lens and a Super Paragon PMC II auto zoom !;3.5-4.8, 35-75mm lens
A Vivitar 28-200mm F3.5-5.3 camera lens together with a Soligor 35-200mm 1:3.8-5.3 lens, a Prinz Galaxy 1:4.5 F=200mm lens, a Tair- 11A2.8/135 lens, a Super Takumar 1:2/55 lens, a Mirage MKII 1:2.8 F=135mm lens, a Sigma zoom 1:4-5.6F=35-200mm lens, a Pentacon electric 2.8/135 lens, a SMC Pentax M 1:3.5 135mm lens, and a Hanimex auto zoom MC 1:4.5 F=80-200mm lens
Vintage Cannon cameras, lenses and accessories, including a Canon F1 120356 camera body with HOYA 52mm UV(O) lens and Canon AV-1 camera with Hama 52mm 60929 lens, together with a FD 200mm 1:4 lens, a Macro FD 50mm 1:35 lens, a FD 35mm 1:2 S.S.C lens, a FD 100mm 1:2.8 lens, a FD 24mm 1:2.8 lens, cased Cokin glass filters, a Vivitar auto thyristor 283 flash, and a Jessops camera bag
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