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R & J Beck National Binocular Microscope
lot 202 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, dated from the Beck records assold on the 28th January 1885 , engraved to the back of the foot 'R & J BECK, LONDON 12138', the microscope on ... read more
Sold for £325 Result including buyers premium More details 7
lot 203 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1900, engraved to the back of the foot 'Watson & Sons, 313 High Holborn, London, 4506' on tripod base with cork lined brass pad feet, ... read more
Sold for £975 Result including buyers premium More details 6
lot 204 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Austria, Viena, circa 1854, signed on the tube 'Plössl in Wien', finished in lacquered brass with blued steel screws, on a heavy circular brass foot ... read more
Sold for £4,000 Result including buyers premium More details 9
A Watson Van Heurck Circuit Stage Binocular & Monocular Microscope Outfit
lot 205 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1890, engraved to the rear of the stand 'W. Watson& Sons, Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London, 5034', the microscope on a massive grey oxide and ... read more
Sold for £3,750 Result including buyers premium More details 14
Impressive Beck Binocular 'International' Microscope
lot 206 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, dated from the Beck records as sold on13 August 1883 and it was noted as 'No.4' sold at Cornhill, engraved to the foot 'R&J Beck LONDON & ... read more
Sold for £6,000 Result including buyers premium More details 14
Polarising Microscope, Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar
lot 207 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
German, c.1910, engraved to the bodytube 'Ernst Leitz Wetzlar No.232948', the microscope on a rigid cast iron stand with plano-concave mirror, ... read more
Sold for £275 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Watson Edinburgh Polarising Microscope
lot 208 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1900, engraved to the back of the foot 'W Watson & Sons, 313 High Holborn, London, 3962', the microscope on typical Edinburgh tripod stand, ... read more
Sold for £400 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Ross, London, Large Petrological Microscope
lot 209 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1890, engraved to teh rear of the foot 'ROSS LONDON, 6408', microscope standing on a heavy 'Y' shaped foot, suppourt column with friction ... read more
Sold for £812 Result including buyers premium More details 7
A Carl Zeiss Jena Petrological Microscope
lot 210 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
German, c.1900, engraved to the body tube'Carl Zeiss Jena No.31228', the microscope stands on a large brass 'Y' shaped foot finished in black lacquer ... read more
Sold for £2,375 Result including buyers premium More details 6
An Exceptionally Rare & Fine 1A Large Model, Petrological Microscope, Voigt & Hochgesang
lot 211 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
German, c.1880, the microscope engraved to one side of the foot ' Voigt & Hochgesang GOTTINGEN' and the same to the front of the stage, the ... read more
Sold for £8,125 Result including buyers premium More details 6
A Fine Set of (Seibert?) Petrological Microscope Accessories
lot 212 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
C.1880, unsigned but possibly by Seibert, French polished case lined with red cotton velvet with the following accessories, an eyepiece ... read more
Sold for £2,750 Result including buyers premium More details 3
A Hayem Nachet Microscope Hematimetre - Hematometer
lot 213 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
French, c.1890, stage engraved 'NACHET B.73', inside of the lid stamped in gilt lettering 'NACHET & FILS, 17 RUE ST SEVERIN, PARIS, leatherette case ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 7
University of Glasgow Genetics Department Microscope Teaching Eyepiece
lot 214 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
German, c.1960's engraved 'CARL ZEISS 4031062 Germany' and further engraved 'GENETICS UNIV. GLAS.' - Genetics University of Glasgow, douple eyepiece ... read more
Estimated at £40 - £60 More details 6
Large Set of Accessories for a Microscope
lot 215 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Large French polished Microscope Accessory set containing a mix of accessories, including a R & J Beck pattern specimen rotator, with canister of ... read more
Sold for £600 Result including buyers premium More details 10
Darwin, Charles, Microscope Specimen Slide of Scoriaceous Lava
lot 215A (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Microscope slide with specimen purported to have been collected by Charles Darwin, the specimen under glass in balsam, with two manuscript lables for ... read more
Sold for £1,625 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Large Collection of Microscope Slides in a Pine Cabinet
lot 216 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Typical Victorian pine microscope slide cabinet with glazed door, 21 slide drawers to hold 24 slides in 3 rows of 8, each drawer lined in blue velvet, ... read more
Sold for £750 Result including buyers premium More details 24
lot 217 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, 19th century, the cabinet with fold down front door, with 8 drawers for 14 standard-size microscope slides, the slides mostly ... read more
Sold for £338 Result including buyers premium More details 10
Microscope Of a Pultusk Meteorite, 1868
lot 218 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
microscope slide of a ground thin section of meteorite, the label reads 'James How & Co, Meteorite Pultusk, Poland, Jan 30 1868, The Pultusk ... read more
Sold for £212 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Rare Collection of 6 Microscope Slides of Meteorite Sections
lot 219 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Collection includes slides with the following lables: Meteorite, NWA 5437chondrite, Large chondrules, LL3-5 Morocco 2008, D. Copesake. Meteorite, ... read more
Sold for £438 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Collection of Exhibition Diatom Microscope Slides
lot 220 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
lables include: Diatomaceae, K. D. Kemp, Exhibition Mount 25 diatoms in a circle, (hyrax) Sept 1991. Diatomaceae, K. D. Kemp, Navicule Lennedyi, ... read more
Sold for £725 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Collection of Microscope Slides by Horace Dall & Spike Walker
lot 221 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
collection of microscope slides with 5 slides by Spike walker, 2 slides with specimens collected by K. D. Kemp and mounted by Horade Dall, and ... read more
Sold for £338 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Microscope Slide of a Fossil Ammonite
lot 222 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Microscope Slide of a Fossil Ammonite section, Madagascar,
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A Good Collection of 35 Microscope Geological Sections
lot 223 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
slides include geological sections by Topping, W. Hemingway, Derby, Norman, Watson, and others,
Sold for £500 Result including buyers premium More details 8
Important & Early Uncovered Geological Microscope Specimen Slides in the Manner of Sanderson
lot 224 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
1st Quarter of the 19th century, unsigned but in the manner of the early geological slides produced by the Scottish mineral dealer John Sanderson ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 5
A Boxwood Gunter's Rule & Other
lot 225 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, first half 19th century, stamped 'G & T BRADBURN, MAKERS BIRMm' and stamped 'G. S. ALLEN' with navigation scales, scale rule, Gunter's ... read more
Estimated at £50 - £100 More details 6
Stephens, Alexander, Important Irish Backstaff or Davis quadrant, 1742
lot 226 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Irish, dated to the central stretcher 'made by Alexander Stephens for Mr John Taylor, July the 19th 1742', with boxwood 0-25 degree and 0-60 degree ... read more
Sold for £2,500 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Wild T4 Astronomical Theodolite
lot 227 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Swiss, c.1960, engraved 'WILD HEERBRUGG SWITZERLAND T4-87027' standing on 3 large leveling screw feet to conical base, horizontal circle with guide ... read more
Sold for £4,000 Result including buyers premium More details 8
War Department Portable Field Telegraph Set
lot 228 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1914, base board stamped to the rear of the clockwork drive 'REID' and stamped to the front of the clockwork 'WD14' with military arrow ... read more
Sold for £650 Result including buyers premium More details 9
18th Century Pedometer, Spencer Perkins, London
lot 231 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, late 18th Century, the enamelled dial signed 'SPENCER & PPERKINS, LONDON', the white enamelled dial numbered around the edge 0-100 and ... read more
Estimated at £400 - £600 More details 7
lot 232 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, silver marks date for , dial marked 'Negretti & Zambra, London', dial with geared scale marked in miles, in fitted case with sall boxwood ... read more
Sold for £238 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Pocket Prismatic Compass, Elliot Bros, London
lot 233 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1860, the green parper dial marked 'ELLIOT BROS. Strand London' the compass engraved with owners name in copperplate 'Willam A Roberts', ... read more
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Combination Compass & Inclinometer
lot 234 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, dated 1916, engraved 'Angle of Sight Instrument, H.A. Mark I. J H Steward Ltd 1916 No.212' with silvered and weighted inclinometer scale and ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Fraser & Son, Universal Equinoctial Dial
lot 235 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1860, engraved 'A.C. Fraser & Son, London', with engraved silvered hour ring mounted on stand with spirit levels and 3 screw feet, grey ... read more
Sold for £600 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Surveying Compendium, Dunkin & James, Penzance
lot 236 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Cornish, c.1810, the silvered compass rose engraved 'Dunkin & James, Penzance', the dial in a wooden mount with engraved scale to one side for ... read more
Sold for £600 Result including buyers premium More details 7
W. Wilton St Day Pocket Compass
lot 237 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Cornish, c.1830, silvered dial engraved in script 'W. Wilton St Day, French polished mahogant case brass bezel to glass, 10.2cm wide Note: W. Wilton ... read more
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Large 19th Century Country House Cannon Dial
lot 238 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
French?, c. late 19th Century, unsigned, heavy octagonal white marble base, sundial with brass gnomen to rear, burning lens in adjustable frame with ... read more
Sold for £475 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Circumferentor, Clerget a Paris
lot 239 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
French, late 18th century, engraved 'Clerget A Paris' the 6in dial with glazed compass to center, adilade with 2 sights Note: Auctioneer Owned
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 5
A Fuller's Calculator by Stanley
lot 240 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, serial no 12810, with a label to the lid of the case for 'W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd, London', the spiral slide rule with an inner cylinder with ... read more
Sold for £150 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Revolution Counter & Stopwatch
lot 241 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
German, revolution Counter & Stopwatch, white enamelled face to stopwatch with second hand and secondary minute dial, to the other side is a readout ... read more
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 3
A Fine Lacquered Brass 6in Swing Arm Protractor, Stanley
lot 242 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c. 1890, engraved 'Stanley, London' of typical form with swing out arms on blued steel springs with steel pointers, clamp with fine screw ... read more
Sold for £100 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Swing Arm Protractor, Troughton & Simms
lot 243 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1840, engraved across the vernier arm'Troughton & Simms, London' with silver scale, gearing around the edge both arms with steel springs, ... read more
Sold for £275 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Adams, George, Large Drawing Instrument Etui
lot 244 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, C. 1770, engraved to the parallel protractor and sector 'G. Adams London', polished rayskin covered etui with white metal edging to lid and ... read more
Sold for £2,375 Result including buyers premium More details 19
Met Office Pattern Barograph, Short & Mason
lot 245 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1950, stamped to the base plate 'MO Short & Mason, London, Made in England, No. J1257, polished wooden body, with lacquered brass parts ... read more
Sold for £75 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Large Pocket Barometer, Berne, Switzerland
lot 246 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Swiss, c.1880, face engraved 'Compense, K. Rufenachet, Berne', scale on rotatin bezel engraved -2 to 52, scale to face engraved 40-78, case stamped ... read more
Sold for £94 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Pocket Combination Barometer & Compass
lot 247 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1880, by Heath and Co. the dial engraved 'Compensated Hezzanith' with rotating scale marked 0-8000ft, face engraved 12-23 inches, with ... read more
Sold for £106 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Pocket Combination Barometer & Compass
lot 248 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1900, the dial engraved 'Compensated, Short & Mason Ltd, London ' with rotating scale marked 0-20000ft, face engraved 15-31 inches, with ... read more
Sold for £106 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Full Hunter Pocket Barometer, B. Cooke & Son, Hull
lot 249 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1870, face engraved 'B. Cooke & Son, 44 Savile St, Hull', scale on bezel engraved 0-10000, scale to face engraved 21-31, in full hunter ... read more
Sold for £100 Result including buyers premium More details 4