traveling compound microscope
Date: circa 1910
Inventory Number: 1333
Classification: Microscope
Subject:
Maker: R. Bailey (fl. 1880 - 1910)
Owner: F. William Marlow Jr. (1902 - 1988)
Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
microscope: 25.5 × 18.1 × 17.3 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
case: 28 × 10.1 × 11.1 cm (11 × 4 × 4 3/8 in.)
box: 26.7 × 12.1 × 13 cm (10 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
Accessories: 1 Objective: 1/2 "; 10 prepared glass slides; box;
Description:
All brass microscope with a tripod foot that folds up parallel to the upright arm. A tail piece slides up until the substage mirror is nearly in contact with the stage. The arm has a sleeve into which the body tube goes. The body tube is adjusted by rack and pinion for fine focus. Coarse focus is by means of an ocular draw tube with a fixed eyepiece.
The stage is rectangular with brass spring clips. The substage mirror is plano-concave. The concave side is cracked.
The tripod legs, arm, and sleeve are blackened brass. The rest is bright brass.
The instrument has a standing wooden case with parts cushioned by green wool cloth. A corroded iron handle is on top. Ten prepared glass slides are with the instrument. Four are commercially made. There is one objective with a nickel-tip (marked "1/2 in") and one ocular.
The interior of the case door is marked in pencil and chalk.
The stage is rectangular with brass spring clips. The substage mirror is plano-concave. The concave side is cracked.
The tripod legs, arm, and sleeve are blackened brass. The rest is bright brass.
The instrument has a standing wooden case with parts cushioned by green wool cloth. A corroded iron handle is on top. Ten prepared glass slides are with the instrument. Four are commercially made. There is one objective with a nickel-tip (marked "1/2 in") and one ocular.
The interior of the case door is marked in pencil and chalk.
Signedstamped on rear leg: BAILEY, BIRMINGHAM.
printed on slide’s paper: NORTHERN / BIOLOGICAL / SUPPLIES / 35, High Park Drive / Bradford
printed on slides’ paper (3): Prepared by / Northern / Biological / Supplies for / Reynolds & / Branson Ltd. / Briggate, Leeds
Inked on specimen slide: H H G Chilcott
Inked on specimen slide: 19/6/96 JBA
Inked on specimen slide: J.H.
printed on slide’s paper: NORTHERN / BIOLOGICAL / SUPPLIES / 35, High Park Drive / Bradford
printed on slides’ paper (3): Prepared by / Northern / Biological / Supplies for / Reynolds & / Branson Ltd. / Briggate, Leeds
Inked on specimen slide: H H G Chilcott
Inked on specimen slide: 19/6/96 JBA
Inked on specimen slide: J.H.
Inscribedin chalk on door interior: 693
in pencil on door interior: 88/-
in pencil on door interior: JONES / J E
in pencil on door interior: 88/-
in pencil on door interior: JONES / J E
Historical AttributesThe instrument is in the pattern of a field instrument designed by Sir Ronald Ross, notable for his work on malaria. The pattern was used by the Indian Medical Service.
ProvenanceDr. F. William Marlow, Jr., Weston, MA.