Culpeper microscope
Category
Scientific instruments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Lignum vitae, Paper, Rayskin, Brass, Vellum, Oak, Steel, Textile
Measurements
475 x 195 x 195 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338207
Summary
Microscope, Culpeper type. Body tube of pasteboard covered with red ray skin. Inner tube covered with green vellum with vertical numbering 1 to 5. Lignum vitae lens mount and objective nose piece. Brass eye cup with sliding dust cap. Circular wooden base fixed to square box foot with drawer, all mahogany. Stage fitted with rotating disc of specimens and lens for top illumination. Accessories in the drawer include four numbered objective lenses, a light limiting cone, live box, fish plate, stage forceps, rotating specimen disc with box of glass covers, pivoting mirror and a glass phial. Housed in an oak pyramid case, lock removed, brass carrying loop on top. On stand 1332807. In notebook no.2, page ? (1340945.2) Charles Wade refers to: 'Admiral 137. Microscope' With description, currently unreadable. Includes sketch with dimensions.
Provenance
CPW Item 137 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 2 The Admiral’s Room, 1944, page ?