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Microscope (detail)

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made in England

Microscope (detail)
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This is a detail of the barrel of a compound microscope. The instrument was made in England around 1700 and is unsigned.

The detail shows the stained orange and green mottling and gold-impressed tooled motifs on the vellum-covered outer draw of the microscope. Such motives are typical for the period.

In 1966, a study of the motifs on 70 English instruments showed that the same book-binding tools were used to decorate instruments signed by different makers. However, the motifs fell into three stylistic - and therefore possibly dating - groups.

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