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Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. The Universal model microscope fitted with binocular tubes. Pat. Oct. 3, 1876 and Oct 13, 1885
Powell & Lealand, Elmsdale, Greenham Road, Muswell Hill N., Late of 170 Euston Road N. W. The monocular No.1 microscope, c.1908
Carpenter type Improved microscope: The New Improved Compound Microscope for Opake and Transparent Objects
R. Fuess Berlin #131. The Rosenbusch model c.1878. An example of the first type of petrological microscope
Invented by M. Pillischer Optician 398 Oxford St., London, N. 32. The Lenticular Microscope. c. 1851
Monocular microscope with polarizing attachments: E. Leitz, Wetzlar, No. 6087, Stativ Nr. 1b, c.1884
Likely English made botanical or entomological microscope mounted on a sharkskin covered case. c. 1800
Early bar-limb microscope: signed on the base Ross, London No. 88 and on the stage Powell & Lealand, London. c. 1843
Charles A. Spencer (Spencer & Eaton). The Large Trunnion Model microscope with lever activated stage, c. 1859
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Pat. Oct. 3, 1876, Serial No. 2188. The Physician's model microscope (second form), c. 1883
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Pat. Oct. 3, 1876, Serial No. 1078. The Physician's model microscope (first form), c. 1879
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester NY, Serial No. 76, Pat. Oct. 3, 1876. The Professional model microscope, c. 1876
C. Kellner's nachfolger, FR. Belthle in Wetzlar, No. 945. Objectives signed Belthle & Leitz, c. 1866.
Portrait of the Romanian microscopist Ioan Cantacuzino (1863-1934). Artist signed: A. Lavrillier, Jassy 1918. Bronze plaque 150 mm in diameter.
C. Kellner in Wetzlar, Belthle & Rexroth, No. 280, c. 1859. The microscope of Louis Bauer, MD (1814-1898)
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Pat. Oct. 3, 1876, #3340, The Universal model microscope with a nickel plated surface finish, c. 1885
J. Swift, Optician, 128 City Road, London E. C. Binocular microscope for conventional and polarized light microscopy, c. 1870
L. Schrauer, Maker, N. Y., Second Prize Microscope Awarded to Joseph E. McKenzie, M.D. by the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, 1892
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester NY. An early version of the Investigator model microscope, c. 1880
Signed: Made for McAllister & Co., Philadelphia. Imported larger case-mounted microscope. Attributed to Noël Buron, Paris, c.1844
Signed: Made for McAllister & Co., Philadelphia. Imported smaller case-mounted microscope, Attributed to Noël Buron, Paris, c.1844
E. Hartnack sucr. de G. Oberhaeuser. Place Dauphine 21, Paris, #5024. Middle model drum microscope, c. 1865
Mackenzie 15 Cheapside London. New Improved Pocket Compound Microscope . Cary-Gould type microscope, c. 1830.
Paul Waechter, Berlin #12416, Large model No. 1b for bacteriological investigations, c. 1888. The microscope of Dr. Julius Townsend Rose MD (1869-1950)
A Most Improved type microscope with advanced features. An early achromatic (and non-achromatic) transitional microscope, c. 1830
Portrait in oil of Jakob Vimpel in his laboratory at the Carlsberg Breweries. Danish, first quarter of the 20th century.
Pike Maker, 518 Broadway New York, No. 120. Large microscope with Lister-limb made by Daniel Pike, c. 1871
Compound and Simple Microscope on a folding tripod base. English, unsigned. c.1815 (Possibly made by Matthew Berge, London)
J. Zentmayer, Philadelphia, Patented 1876, No. 2504. The American Centennial binocular microscope, c. 1885
American made microscope on a double pillar and rotating base. Most likely made by an amateur, c. 1885
E. Leitz, Wetzlar, No. 253025. The MOP petrological microscope, c. 1925. For use with reflected or transmitted polarized light
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester and New york City, #16221. The final version of the Professional Model microscope, c. 1894
James Swift & Son, University St. London. Blankley's Small Pocket Microscope - The Seaside Microscope, c. 1879
Bausch & Lomb Optical. Co., Rochester N.Y. An early and uncommon B&L microscope with screw tube focusing, c. 1875
J. Zentmayer, Maker, Philadelphia, # 1089. The "Grand American Model" with monocular and binocular tubes, c. 1874
John Browning, London (attributed). Sorby-Browning Microspectroscope with Bright-line Micrometer, c. 1880
Jos. Zentmayer, Philadelphia, FECIT, No.1. The first (or forerunner) Grand American Microscope, c. 1858
The Improved Griffith Club Microscope. E. H. Griffith, Pat. Dec. 14, 86, Rochester N.Y., #957, c. 1889
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