Microscope
Category
Scientific instruments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, wood, glass, paper and cardboard
Measurements
Wooden box - 215 mm (length); 94 mm (width); 76 mm (height), Each glass slide - 76 mm (length); 25 mm (width), Red cardboard box - 28 mm (width); 21 mm (height), Microscope - 190 mm (height), Edgeworth tobacco tin - 112 mm (height), Each circular plate - 21 mm (diameter)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670772
Summary
A rectangular wooden box with a hinged lid. Inside is a metal microscope supported on a black painted metal stand supported on a three footed base. The glass eye piece is set into a metal cylinder which appears to be made of brass and copper along its length. This cylinder is attached to the black metal stand. The stand is divided in two by a black metal 'platform' which would support a glass slide, there are two metal clamps which would hold a glass slide in place. Beneath the 'platform' is a circular mirror held in a hinged and pivoting metal frame. Also in the box is a tiny red square cardboard box containing tiny gummed labels for marking specimens and ten circular glass plates. Printed on the box lid is 'half Oz. Microscopic Glass Circles, 718 Diam. No.1'. Also in the wooden box is a blue metal 'Edgeworth' tobacco tin with a hinged lid. It contains twenty four rectangular glass slides - some with specimens, some blank. Some of the slides have labels with handwritten details of the specimens. Some have 'J.G.R. Stevens' written on them. Total number of items is 76.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label around the paper labels in the red cardboard box: 'Suttley and Silverlock/ LABEL AND GENERAL PRINTERS FOR/ CHEMISTS AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION/ Andover, HANTS.'