Boxfoot Culpeper microscope

Made:: 1780-1820

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Boxfoot Culpeper microscope
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Boxfoot Culpeper microscope, with startling turquoise leather cover to body tube and support, in pyramidal case, German, circa 1800

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Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A645020

Materials:: body tube, wood, body tube, leather, turquoise, cover and body tube, brass, cap

type:: culpeper microscopes

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Boxfoot Culpeper microscope

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