Live Auction 5428Travel, Science & Natural History
A lacquered-brass Gould-type botanist's microscope
Lot 276

A lacquered-brass Gould-type botanist's microscope

BY WATKINS & HILL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 April 2008

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GBP 687

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A lacquered-brass Gould-type botanist's microscope
by Watkins & Hill, early 19th century
the tapering barrel threading into a limb atop the pillar with rack-and-pinion adjusted stage and concave mirror, arranged to screw into a brass ferrule on the lid of the case, with stage forceps and three six-celled ivory slides, in fitted case with trade label WATKINS & HILL, Opticians, 5, Charing Cross, LONDON.
4½in. (12cm.) wide

Specialist note

Watkins and Hill were working at this address between 1819 and 1856, and held appointments to the Dukes of Clarence and York, and the East India Company (cf. G. Clifton Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 (London: 1995), p. 291).