Microscope box containing microscope components, used by Horace Dall

Made:: London

Lockable wooden microscope box, with key, modified with added shelves to store multiple additional microscope components. Part of a collection of optical instruments used by Horace Dall.

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Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Object Number:: 1986-1242/23

type:: box - container

credit:: Helana Dall

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Modified microscope box, used by Horace Dall

Lockable wooden microscope box, with key; modified to store microscope components, with four hand made shelves. Part of a collection of optical instruments used by Horace Dall.

Materials:: wood (unidentified) , metal (unknown) and textile

Object Number:: 1986-1242/23/1

type:: optical instruments and box - container

Additional microscope components consisting of 43 eyepiece and objective lenses, 8 slides, 32 pinhole stops of which 11 are in a plastic box and 14 are in a leather pouch, 3 eyepieces without lenses, 5 rings, 1 stage clip, 2 mirrors, 1 brass tube, 1 threaded component, 4 unidentified components. Part of a collection of optical instruments used by Horace Dall.