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This brass simple and compound microscope was made around 1830, and retailed by Robert Brettell Bate (1782-1847), a scientific instrument maker based in London.

It has three single lens objectives. Its accessories include a cork and ivory stage insert, stage forceps, stage condenser, and hand magnifier. It is signed on an arm of the tripod base 'Bate LONDON'.

George Adams noted of this microscope design, known as a small 'Most Improved' instrument, that it was frequently made in smaller dimensions 'for the convenience of people who travel'. Derived from one of Benjamin Martin's designs, this form of microscope continued to be sold well into the later 19th century.

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