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Auction archive: Lot number 480

A 19th-Century lacquered-brass botanical microscope

Auction 19.10.2005
19 Oct 2005
Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$529 - US$705
Price realised:
£384
ca. US$677
Auction archive: Lot number 480

A 19th-Century lacquered-brass botanical microscope

Auction 19.10.2005
19 Oct 2005
Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$529 - US$705
Price realised:
£384
ca. US$677
Beschreibung:

A 19th-Century lacquered-brass botanical microscope, signed on the barrel C..W.. Dixey Optician to the Queen New Bond St London , arranged to thread into a short limb adjusted by rack and pinion from the cylindrical column with stage with sprung slide holder beneath and concave mirror, threading into a ferrule on the lid of the case, with one objective, stage bull's-eye and forceps and three ivory and five glass sliders, in a fitted mahogany case with a green plush pillow in the lid and two brass hooks and nails -- 14.5cm. (5¾in.) wide

Auction archive: Lot number 480
Auction:
Datum:
19 Oct 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A 19th-Century lacquered-brass botanical microscope, signed on the barrel C..W.. Dixey Optician to the Queen New Bond St London , arranged to thread into a short limb adjusted by rack and pinion from the cylindrical column with stage with sprung slide holder beneath and concave mirror, threading into a ferrule on the lid of the case, with one objective, stage bull's-eye and forceps and three ivory and five glass sliders, in a fitted mahogany case with a green plush pillow in the lid and two brass hooks and nails -- 14.5cm. (5¾in.) wide

Auction archive: Lot number 480
Auction:
Datum:
19 Oct 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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