A LACQUERED BRASS JONES' MOST IMPROVED-TYPE MICROSCOPE
ROBERT BANCKS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
signed on the foot Bancks, 440. Strand, LONDON, the tapering body-tube screwing into arm on main limb, with rack-and-pinion stage, sliding substage and mirror, the limb mounted on hinge on a tapering column with folding tripod feet; accessories incomplete, including rotating six lens nose-piece, lieberkuhn, ivory slide; the fitted case lacking lid and with later base.
10½x14in. (27x35cm.) in case
A LACQUERED BRASS JONES' MOST IMPROVED-TYPE MICROSCOPE
ROBERT BANCKS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
signed on the foot Bancks, 440. Strand, LONDON, the tapering body-tube screwing into arm on main limb, with rack-and-pinion stage, sliding substage and mirror, the limb mounted on hinge on a tapering column with folding tripod feet; accessories incomplete, including rotating six lens nose-piece, lieberkuhn, ivory slide; the fitted case lacking lid and with later base.
10½x14in. (27x35cm.) in case
.jpg?maxwidth=3840)