Large William Hooper Binocular Microscope with Presentation Engraving

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Large William Hooper Binocular Microscope with Presentation Engraving, of lacquered brass, with Wenham-type tube engraved W.W. Hooper, Fair Field Road, Bow, London, rackwork coarse focusing, rackwork interocular adjustment, fine focus on nosepiece, trunnions supporting bar limb, shaped bracket supporting the arm, mechanical stage with X and Y motions controlled by bone-topped ball-and-socket lever, stage clips, stage-mounted forceps, substage wheel of stops, plano / concave mirror on swing-arm attached to collar, and damascened claw-foot Y-form base engraved in script above City of London seal Carlton John Lambert, Presented by the Corporation of the City of London, February 1867, ht. closed 16, in fitted mahogany case containing bull's-eye condensor on pillar, two additional eyepieces, three unsigned objectives in maker's signed cannisters engraved 1/4, 1 and 2-inch, Camera Lucida attachment, substage condensor, and other items, wd. 16 1/2 in.

Note: William Williams Hooper is listed as a maker of mathematical instruments. Apprenticed to Joseph Hughes and James Gardner, he took on Henry Crouch as an apprentice in 1852.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

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