$2,000
Large William Hooper Binocular Microscope with Presentation Engraving, of lacquered brass, with Wenham-type tube engraved W. W. Hooper, Fair Field Road, Bow, London , rackwork coarse focusing, rackwork interocular adjustment, fine focus on nosepiece, trunnions supporting bar limb, shaped bracket supporting the arm, mechanical stage with X and Y motions controlled by bone-topped ball-and-socket lever, stage clips, stage-mounted forceps, substage wheel of stops, plano / concave mirror on swing-arm attached to collar, and damascened claw-foot Y-form base engraved in script above City of London seal Carlton John Lambert, Presented by the Corporation of the City of London, February 1867 , ht. closed 16, in fitted mahogany case containing bull's-eye condensor on pillar, two additional eyepieces, three unsigned objectives in maker's signed cannisters engraved 1/4, 1 and 2-inch , Camera Lucida attachment, substage condensor, and other items, wd. 16 1/2 in. Note: William Williams Hooper is listed as a maker of mathematical instruments. Apprenticed to Joseph Hughes and James Gardner, he took on Henry Crouch as an apprentice in 1852.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-08-23
