Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2283Location: BoltonDate / Time: May 03, 2005 10:00AM
Description:
Lacquered-Brass Compound Microscope by Newton,3 Fleet St., London, with rack-and-pinion coarse focusing to triangular bar-limb, the tube unscrewing for storage, nosepiece fine focusing, eyepiece, lapped-brass stage with four-stop aperture, mirror and stage-forceps, on cast-iron splayed foot, ht. closed 14 in., with two Newton & Co. engraved cannisters, two objectives and a bull's-eye condenser, in fitted case (lacking door).
Estimate $600-800