English, c.1880, signed in script to the back of the circular base 'C. W. Dixey Optician to the Queen, New Bond St. London', the microscope on a heavy lead filled brass base on a single pillar with a compass type joint at the top, with a sprung simple stage, rack and pinion focusing to a triangular bar, with objective, stage forceps, live box and a few slides, all in a French polished mahogany case with key, assembled microscope height 37cm