Nuremburg type drum microscopes marked "JFF" in heart on base

Made:: 1780-1920 in Germany

Nuremburg type drum microscopes marked JFF' in heart on base
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Nuremburg type drum microscopes marked "JFF" in heart on base, German, late 18th or early 19th century

Details

Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A60966

Materials:: dust cap, walnut, tube collars, walnut, nose, walnut, draw tubes, pasteboard, draw tubes, beech, lenses, glass, drum, oak and split rings, steel

Measurements:: eye lens: diameter 19 mm
field lens: diameter 25 mm
objective: diameter 9 mm
body tube: length 173 mm
drum: height 123 mm
drum: length 70 mm
drum: width 68 mm
overall: height 254 mm

type:: nuremburg microscopes

credit:: Nachet and Son

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