$2,200
Lacquered Brass Zentmayer Intermediate Microscope, No. 762, with rack and pinion coarse focusing, fine focusing on nose, Lister limb, damascened circular stage with adjustable substage, plano / concave mirror on swing-arm, and twin tapering pillars to Y-foot engraved in script J. Zentmayer, Philadelphia, No. 762 , ht. closed 17 1/4 in., (lacquer worn off on one pillar and part of the foot), in fitted walnut case with oak box containing parabolic condensor, oblique illuminator, condensor with wheel of stops, E. Gundlach No. VII oil immersion objective in cannister, Tolles 1/2-inch objective in cannister, Tolles 180º 1/6-inch oil immersion objective in cannister, four unmarked objectives in cannisters, and other items; copy of The Microscope and its Revelations by William B. Carpenter, 1868.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-08-23
