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possibly made in London

Microscope
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This brass compound microscope dates from around 1800. It is built to a design developed from Edward Culpeper 's (c. 1666-1738) original type of 1725. The microscope is unsigned although it has the trade card of John Bleuler, a London scientific instrument maker who was in business between 1790 and 1829.

The microscope has a wooden pyramidal box (not shown) on a wooden base containing drawer with accessories. These include 10 ivory slides, forceps, stage forceps, five numbered objectives, stage condenser, livebox, lieberkuhn and fish plate.

The Culpeper form of tripod microscope proved extremely popular from about 1725 to the end of the 18th century: all that changed was the materials. It incorporates a substage mirror, and its construction was more rigid than the side-pillar design.

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