Nuremburg type microscope with "JFF" in heart-shape branded on base

Made:: 1781-1820 in Germany

Nuremburg type microscope with JFF' in heart-shape branded on
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Nuremburg type microscope with "JFF" in heart-shape branded on base, German, 1781-1820

Details

Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A56314

Materials:: lenses, glass, stand & nose, walnut, eye cup & eye cap, pasteboard and draw tubes, pine

Measurements:: eye lens: diameter 19 mm
field lens: diameter 26 mm
body tube: diameter 9 mm
overall: height 332 mm

type:: nuremburg microscopes

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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