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Lot 49
Sale 6279 - The Gilded Age
Feb 24, 2022
5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$2,000 -
3,000
Lot Description
A Victorian Brass Compound Binocular Microscope A. Ross, London, circa 1860
The microscope base inscribed 'A. Ross, London, No. 384,' with rack and pinion adjustments and fine focusing and a plano/convex mirror; the separate binocular lens attachment with two removable lenses in a small fitted mahogany box with brass plaque inscribed 'George Coles' with Coles family crest of a snake encircling a column; the mahogany case fitted with drawers fitted with additional eyepieces, lenses, and an assortment of glass slides.
H: 20 3/4, W: 12, D: 10 1/2 in. (case)