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Large Microscope Slide Cabinet
lot 642 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
English, c.1900, French polished pine, glazed door, ceramic labels to each drawer, 29 drawers each with 3 rows, lock no key, 45cm tall Footnote: This ... read more
Sold for £212 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Entomological Speciment Cabinet Converted To Microscope Slides
lot 643 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
Cabinet polished, 2 panel doors, with ceramic Knobs opening to reveal 5 long drawers, with steel drop handles, drawer tops notched to take glass top ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 7
A Collection of Microscope Slides
lot 644 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
approx 250 to 300 slides, labelled, mostly angiospermae, one box labelled "Sidney Sussex College", and a box of see envelopes, labelled "Musci".
Sold for £44 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Large Collection of Microscope Slides
lot 645 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
including 3 flip front cases, and 4 other smaller cases containing a large collection of slides by makers including Beck, Topping, Dancer, ... read more
Sold for £500 Result including buyers premium More details 8
Collection of Microscope Slides
lot 646 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
including a French polished wooden flip front case with 10 trays of slides, slides include a Microphotograph by A.R. titled Criniline in Difficulties, ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 7
Small Collection of Microscope Slides
lot 647 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
including 3 cases of NBS Microscope Slides, a case of modern Biological specimen slides, and an empty microscope slide case
Estimated at £20 - £40 More details 5
Various Scientific & Microscope Books
lot 718 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
including: THe Microscope, Hogg, 1911; Microscopy Spitta, 1909; Evenings at the Microscope, Gosse, 1860; Conderning the Nature of Things, Sir William ... read more
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Collection of Microscope Books
lot 752 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
Collection of Period Microscope books to include: Hogg, Jabez, The Microscope, 2nd Ed. 1856, full leather binding. Cooke M. C. One Thousand Objects ... read more
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 17
Rare Catalogue of all R & J Beck Products
lot 753 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025)
Including A rare R & J Beck catalogue, with leter dated 1896, with all of R & J Becks products, with sections for Photographic Apparatus, Microscope ... read more
Sold for £125 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Collection of Vintage Microscopes
lot 690 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
to include, Watson Service II, Cooke binocular, Baker Microscope, Carl Zeiss Jena, Watson Service II Note: WE CAN NOT SHIP THIS ITEM IN-HOUSE - ... read more
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 16
Dissecting Microscope By Ross, London
lot 691 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1880, engraved in copper plate script to the rear of the foor 'Ross London', Y shaped foot with pillar, rack and pinion focus, limb with ... read more
Sold for £162 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 692 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
including a large Society of the Arts Pattern microscope, engraved to the rear of the foot in copperplate 'Negretti & Zambra 1 Hatton Garden London' ... read more
Sold for £125 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Collection of 3 Victorian Brass Microscopes
lot 693 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
including a drum microscope engraved in copper plate 'J P Cutts Sutton & SonOpticiens to her Majesty, Shefield & London'; an unusual brass microscope ... read more
Sold for £112 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Zeiss Tessovar Microscope System
lot 694 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
German, c.1960, Zeiss, including main stag/stand, 2 Tessovar heads, lamps and other attachments The Carl Zeiss Tessovar is a microscope for ... read more
Sold for £400 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Classic Microscopy A Bausch & Lomb Monocular Microscope
lot 695 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
American, engraved Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. Rochester N.Y. U.S.A., fixed stage, with 1.9mm, 4mm, & 16mm objectives, rotary turret engraved with (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £44 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Microscope Objective - Nikon Plan Apo 4X
lot 696 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
brand new still in original packaging, date of manufacture 2022/05/30, objective marked Nikon Plan Apo Lamda D 4X/0.20 infin/- WD 2.0, M25mm thread ... read more
Sold for £250 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Edmund Optics Microscope Objective, UCObjective 2x
lot 697 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
objective as new with both end caps in original box, objective marked 36281 UCObjective 2x/0.08
Estimated at £30 - £50 More details 2
Leitz Wetzlar Microscope Hine Condenser
lot 698 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
Leitz Wetzlar Microscope Hine Condenser, with dovetail slot to fit substage mount, rack and pinion focus and centring screws, engraved 'Leitz Wetzlar ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Microscope Objective - Nikon Plan UW 1X/0.04
lot 699 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
brand new still in original packaging, date of manufacture 2022/05/31, objective marked Nikon Plan UW 1X/0.04 infin/- WD 3.2, M25mm thread Footnote: ... read more
Sold for £325 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Microscope Objective - Nikon Plan Apo D 10x/0.45 DIC
lot 700 (Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 27th Mar, 2025)
brand new still in original packaging, date of manufacture 2022/10/14, objective marked Nikon Plan Apo Lambda D 10x/0.45 infin/0.17 WD 4.0, and to ... read more
Sold for £250 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Maull & Polyblank, Albumen Print of Frederick Walter Simms, F.R.A.S.
lot 36 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Maull & Polyblank, the image, with arched top mounted on period paper with manuscript title 'F. W. Simms, F.R.A.S.' the the base of the image, ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Stereo Diapositive of a Baker Microscope Set up for Macrophotography
lot 58 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Standard sized stereo diaposotive slide showing a Baker Nelson No.1 (note notches to front feet) set up with a microscope oil lamp and plate camera ... read more
Sold for £12 Result including buyers premium More details 1
2 Magic Lantern Microscope Attachments
lot 112 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1860, unmarked, brass body with 2 sprung slots to accept slide carry, projection lens with rack and pinion focus, 17cm long; and another ... read more
Sold for £125 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 233 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
French, c.1880, unsigned, large mirror assembly with black glass for polarising work to one side and a silvered mirror for normal microscopical use ... read more
Sold for £1,500 Result including buyers premium More details 4
A Substantial Victorian Binocular Microscope Outfit
lot 234 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1880, unsigned but almost certainly from the Workshops of Thomas Ross, the microscope foot finely engraved with the owners initials in a ... read more
Sold for £3,500 Result including buyers premium More details 10
Small Dollond Gould Microscope
lot 235 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
(Ω) English, c.1820, the column engraved 'Dollond London' assembled microscope with concave mirror in a gimbal, sprung stage on rackwork to focus, ... read more
Sold for £325 Result including buyers premium More details 4
John Browning Folding Microscope
lot 236 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1880, microscope engraved ''John Browning, 63 Strand, London 643', on two fold out brass legs, with plano-concave mirror, simple stage, ... read more
Sold for £300 Result including buyers premium More details 4
A Large & Well Equipped Victorian Binocular Microscope
lot 237 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1870, unsigned but very much in the style of Charles Bakker, 244 High Holborn, the microscope standing on a typical 'Y' shaped foot with ... read more
Sold for £1,062 Result including buyers premium More details 9
Large & Fine Binocular & Monocular Victorian Binocular Microscope, J. B. Dancer
lot 238 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, dated 1861, engraved in copperplate script 'J. B. Dancer Optician, Manchester, No.310' and to the binocular bodytube Registered June 27th ... read more
Sold for £2,625 Result including buyers premium More details 10
A Rare Example of Cornelius Varleys First Stirrup-Lever Microscope
lot 239 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1831, unsigned but arrtibuted to Cornelius Varley, the microscope fits inot a brass boss to the inside of the case, with adjustabel ... read more
Sold for £3,500 Result including buyers premium More details 10
French 'Microscope de Poche a Pression'
lot 240 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
French, c.1860, unmarked, small drum microscope of typical form with original case with recess to lid to accept microscope base, case 8.5cm wide. ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 3
Watson Van Heurck Circuit Stage Binocular Microscope
lot 241 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1910, engraved to the rear of the stand 'W. Watson& Sons, Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London, 38737' and to the bar 'Circuit Stage Van Herurck', ... read more
Sold for £4,000 Result including buyers premium More details 8
A Microscope High-Power Microforge Built By Dr. K. I. Johnstone
lot 242 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1970, built by Dr. Kenneth I. Johnstone, B.Sc, Ph.D, M.B, Ch.Bb(Leeds) F.R.M.S., A.R.P.S, and featured in his book (included in this sale) ... read more
Sold for £1,500 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A Small French Gould-Type Microscope
lot 243 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
French, c.1850, unsigned, the microscope mounted on a brass boss to the top of the case, with rack and pinion focus to small limb at the top, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 3
lot 244 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1840, unsigned, microscope screws in to brass boss in centre of lid, rack and pinion focus to stage, 3 simple screw in objectives, ... read more
Estimated at £150 - £250 More details 2
lot 245 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
including a French, c.1860, unmarked, small drum microscope of typical form, also refered to as the Bertrand "Furnace" Microscope, with original case ... read more
Sold for £188 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 246 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
including a Gould-Type microscope, English, c.1840, unsigned, fitted case opend to reveal components in fitted base, microscope of typical form, ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 247 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English,c.1858*, engraved to teh foot 'Smith & Beck, 6 Coleman St, London, 1897', the microscope on a 'Y' shaped foot with tall upright architectural ... read more
Sold for £975 Result including buyers premium More details 10
A Watson "Royal" Compound Microscope
lot 248 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1900, signed to the back of the foot ‘W Watson & Sons, Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London, 7887’, mechanical substage with screw X-Y control ... read more
Estimated at £600 - £800 More details 5
An Unusual Microscope by Watson & Son, London
lot 249 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1900, the base engraved ''WATSON & SONS 313 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON' and to the inside of the lid in gilt lettering, microscope on heavy base ... read more
Sold for £175 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 250 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
German, c.1900, with label for 'E. LEITZ WETZLAR' on heavy cast iron base with chrome plated flywheel, geared advance to specimen, with box ... read more
Sold for £112 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Watson & Sons, Microscope Oil Lamp
lot 251 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1880, engraved to the base 'W. WATSON & SONS 313 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON W.C.', oil lamp on circular base with glass oil reservoir, black ... read more
Sold for £288 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Collection of Microscope Accessories
lot 252 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Including: a microscope microspectroscope, c.1890, unsigned, probably German, with rack and pinion focus, micrometer adjustment to top slit; a cased ... read more
Sold for £1,750 Result including buyers premium More details 8
A Royal Microscopical Society Objective Thread Tap
lot 253 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
an RMS objective thread tap stamped RE 36, age unknown, For Similar see RMS collection Great Age of the microscope, page 348 -351
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Powell & Lealand Microscope Accessories
lot 256 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
including an achromatic condenser engraved Powell & Lealand RMS diameter collar, early Wenham parabolic condenser to fit substage beyonet fitting, ... read more
Sold for £625 Result including buyers premium More details 3
A Good Set of 72 Microscope Slides
lot 257 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
a good set of mixed microscope slides including 6 microphotographs, diatoms, coal fossil, stone from Nottingham Castle dated 1865, and many others in ... read more
Sold for £400 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Good Clean Collection of 57 Victorian Microscope Slides
lot 258 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Later polished pine flip front case containing a collection of very well preserved microscope slides including 4 slides attributed to Andrew ... read more
Sold for £500 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A Set of William Webb Microphotographs & Micro-Writting Prints
lot 259 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Period leather case containing 6 microscope slides, labels read 'God Save the Queen printed from a copper plat engraved in the International ... read more
Sold for £400 Result including buyers premium More details 3
K. D. Kemp, Butterfly Scales Exhibition Microscope Slide
lot 260 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
the slide with Kemp's label to the top 'BUTTERFLY SCALES EXHIBITION' and to the bottom 'BUNCH OF FLOWERS 100 FORMS FOR TOP LIGHT 8/2006 K.D.KEMP' in ... read more
Sold for £300 Result including buyers premium More details 2
William Webb Micro-Engraved Microscope Slide
lot 261 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
William Webb, retailed by 'W. Watson & Sons London' top label reads 'The Lords Prayer engraved on glass with a diamond, 227 letters' and the bottom ... read more
Sold for £225 Result including buyers premium More details 3