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probably made in Edinburgh

Microscope
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This brass microscope was made around 1860, probably by Alexander Adie & Son, scientific instrument makers based in Edinburgh. Microscopes of this type were relatively inexpensive and were often used by medical students.

The microscope is a compound type with a pillar support on a reversed-claw foot. It is signed below the eye-piece draw-tube 'ADIE & SON/ EDINBURGH'.

A series of student microscopes retailed by the firm Adie & Son at this period appear to have interchangeable optical parts and mechanical sub-assemblies.

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