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Lot 97
Watkins & Hill (Charing Cross, London) Brass Pocket Compound Microscope with concave mirror and single lens condenser on folding tripod stand with microscope barrel screwing onto stand; in fitted mahogany case with various accessories including ivory slide holders and an original leaflet taped together)
Lot 85
Smith & Beck (London) Brass Microscope no.705, with concave mirror, bullseye condenser, rotating disc aperture, rotating stage (spring loaded stand partially detached from base) in mahogany case with accessories; together with a Watson & Sons circular stage no.2951, a small R Field microscope and two boxes of slides
Lot 5
A lacquered brass compound microscope Cary, London, circa 1840 The tube screw-fitting at the objective end into a threaded collar positioned at the top of a telescopic upright cut with teeth for the rack and pinion up/down adjustment of the inner sleeve over stage fitted with sprung brass slide clips to top and rotating disc pierced with varying apertures to underside, with pivoted plano-concave mirror applied to the cylindrical base section beneath, the whole mounted via a knuckle joint onto a turned upright over Y-shaped foot signed CARY, LONDON to rear, in original mahogany box with two eyepiece and two objective lenses, forceps, specimen holder, separate stand fitted with light condenser lens and a specimen capsule, the case 23.5cm (9.25ins) high. William Cary who is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as born circa 1759 and apprenticed to Jesse Ramsden. Cary worked from 272 Strand, London 1789-90 then 182 Strand 1794-1822, he died in 1825. The firm was continued by his successors trading from 181 Strand until 1891.
Lot 7
A fine George II lacquered brass, shagreen, and lignum vitae Culpeper double-reflecting compound microscope Edmund Culpeper, London, circa 1730 With sliding brass shutter to eyepiece threaded into ogee shaped moulded lignum vitae top section above gilt-tooled green vellum covered draw-tube with inked focus staging lines sliding into a brass and lignum collared green rayskin outer tube and fitted with long tapered brass tube objective lens to lower section, the whole raised on three fine baluster turned supports with circular stage fitted with a slider clamp to central oculus and pivoted light condenser lens, the lower section with three further taller brass canted baluster supports over circular ogee moulded base fitted with pivoted concave mirror to the concentric ring decorated top surface, in original oak pyramidal box with an apron drawer containing frog plate, two additional objectives, five bone sliders and canister for glasses and brass wire retainers, a circular glass fish plate engraved with three concentric lines and signed Culpeper Fecit within brass outer rim and other items, the interior back panel applied with crossed daggers and instrument trade label inscribed E. Culpeper Sculp. London to lower left, (eyepiece holder incomplete, box lacking most of its mouldings and door lock) the instrument 36cm (14.25ins) high closed; the box 44.5cm (17.5ins) high excluding later ring handle. Edmund Culpeper is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working 1700-37. He adopted the Crossed Daggers motif of his former master Walter Hayes to whom he was apprenticed in 1684. In 1706 Culpeper took over Hayes' shop located at ‘The Crossed Daggers’ in Moorfields London, later moving to the ‘Black & White House’ in Middle Moorfields in 1731 and finally ‘Under the Piazza’ at the Royal Exchange, London, where he is believed to have remained until his death in around 1740. The Culpeper trade card shows instruments made by his firm, these included surveying devices, quadrants, sundials, globes, and optical instruments such as the screw-barrel microscope and spectacles. Culpeper invented the tripod compound microscope sometime between 1725 and 1730, and made at least five major modifications in the years before his death. All models consisted essentially of two platforms, each supported by three turned brass pillars, with one set of pillars alternating in position with the other. The first model had platforms of wood. All later models, including the current lot, had brass platforms. Attached to the upper platform is a tube covered in stained shagreen. The microscope body draw tube, made from vellum covered cardboard, fits within the outer support tube. Focussing is accomplished by pushing the body tube up or down, with the position being maintained by friction between the vellum covering of the draw-tube and the inner surface of the support tube. There are also inked lines drawn on the body tube corresponding to the parfocal position of different objectives. The current instrument has survived in fine original unrestored condition having been in the same family ownership for as long as anyone can remember. It also retains almost all of its accessories which include a glass fishplate scratch-engraved with Culpeper’s signature.
Lot 315
A small late 19th century French brass cased scientific microscope, stamped Nachet Et Fils, Rue Serpente, 16, Paris, 24 cm high, in a fitted mahogany locking hinged case, fitted with further lenses, together with a sale reciept from F.Nash, dealer in miscellaneous goods, 6 Holloway Road, N.7, June 27 1952 for £5, also together with a small pine box containing twelve late 19th century and later entomological glass slides.
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