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A Large Cabinet of Geological & Chemical Microscope Slides
lot 201 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
A Large Cabinet of Geological Microscope Slides with 5 drawers containing chemical samples, Cabinet, English, c.1920, with a label for 'BECK LONDON ... read more
Sold for £10,625 Result plus buyers premium More details 30
A Large Cabinet of Microscope Slides
lot 202 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
A Large Cabinet of Microscope Slides, Cabinet, English, late victorian, unsigned but in the style of 'Smith & Beck (note handle design), with 28 ... read more
Sold for £9,000 Result plus buyers premium More details 30
A Microscope Slide Cabinet Containing an Extensive collection of A. C. Cole Slides
lot 203 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, 3/4 19th Century, unsigned but similar to ones signed by Smith & Beck, constructed of French polished mahogany on plinth base, glazed door ... read more
Sold for £6,000 Result plus buyers premium More details 29
A Collection of J. T. Normans Original Microscope Specimens
lot 204 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
Comprising of two wooden cases the first containing dry specimens to be mounted and made up into microscope slides, consisting of various glass ... read more
Sold for £375 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
A Collection of 24 Microscope Slides
lot 205 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
the set comprising of various slides and 11 microphotographs all by Andrew Reeve (A.R.) including the Lords Prayer Containing 280 Letters; Nothing ... read more
Sold for £500 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
Three Rare Autochrome Photomicrograph Glass Stereoviews
lot 206 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
c.1915, attributed to H Taviner, a rare combination of these three technologies; arranged scales of sole, no label; a mite of some species, Latin ... read more
Sold for £225 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
An Victorian Microscopist's Slide Preparation Set
lot 207 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
c.1865-1867, by Smith Beck & Beck/R & J Beck, fitted mahogany case with lock and key, containig hand-blown bottles with ground glass cover stoppers ... read more
Sold for £625 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
A Powell & Lealand Brass Objective Lens
lot 208 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1870, the objective engraved 'Powell & Lealand', objective with RMS thread and correction collar, in can engraved 1/12
Sold for £150 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Large Aplanatic Microscope Bench Condenser
lot 209 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1900, unsigned but identical to the ones produced by Watson & Sons, 313 High Holborn, London, on heavy lead filled brass base with ... read more
Sold for £200 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Substantial Brass Microscope Lamp
lot 210 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English ,c.1880, unsigned, standing on a large cast brass foot with tall column supporting the lamp on geared adjustment for height and side to side ... read more
Sold for £562 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 211 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1900, heavy-gauge hand-blown glass bulb with label which reads ' For demonstration of I2 fluorescence bulb diameter 11.5cm Footnote: this ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 1
A Brass Telescope (?) Micrometer Eyepiece
lot 212 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1890, engraved 'A Hilger London', geared movement with two micrometer wheels, adjustment wheel to rear, glass window to inside of ... read more
Sold for £625 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Very Large Field X-Ray Induction Coil
lot 213 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1910, signed on a plaque to the inside of the lid 'Harry W Cox Ltd, Actual Makers of X-Ray & Wireless Telegraph Apparatus, 9, 10 & 11 ... read more
Sold for £266 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
A Fine 19th Century Polariscope, Duboscq
lot 214 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
French, c.1860, signed in script J Duboscq a Paris, polariscope body with large goniometer eyepiece silvered scale long lacquered brass body with ... read more
Sold for £350 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 215 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1890, signed 'APPS, 433 Strand, LONDON, PATENT 683' blue velvet-covered secondary coil with vulcanite ends, lacquered brass terminals and ... read more
Sold for £438 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
lot 216 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
comprising of 2 Maltese Cross tubes, a Crookes tube and a railway Tube (4)
Sold for £212 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Wimshurst Electrostatic Machine by Bing
lot 217 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
c.1900, German, unsigned, enamelled cast iron base, glass leyden jars, belt-driven 21cm contra-rotating twin ebonite disks with all nickel plated ... read more
Sold for £375 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Collection of Prisms & Liquid Prisms in Two Cases
lot 218 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
the two polished wooden cases each with four velvet-lined compartments containing various prisms along with a liquid prism held together with brass ... read more
Sold for £225 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
A Quartz Spectrograph Camera, by Hilger, London
lot 219 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1900, signed along the collimator tube 'ADAM HILGER LTD LONDON ENGLAND', on a cast iron base painted in grey lacquer with three brass ... read more
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A Rare 'Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney's Improved Heliostat', By Watson & Sons
lot 220 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1890, signed to a plaque on the base 'W. Watson & Sons, Manufacturers, 313 High Holborn, London', the base constructed of French polised ... read more
Sold for £750 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
An Abbe Pattern Spectrometer by Carl Zeiss Jena
lot 221 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
German, c.1900, signed on the body telescopes and micrometers 'CARL ZEISS JENS' and numbered 1510, on a large and heavy cast iron base with brass ... read more
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A "South Kensington Type" No.1 Table Spectrometer, by Hilger, London
lot 222 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1900, signed to the edge of the divided circle 'A Hilger London', on large cast-iron tripod, with 6" diameter divided scale with vernier ... read more
Sold for £94 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
An Unusual Item for Focusing a Spectroscope Collimator, by Hilger
lot 223 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1900, engraved 'A. HILGER LONDON' and engraved to the top 'TELESCOPE' constructed of lacquered brass with two glass prisms held in place ... read more
Sold for £162 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 224 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1900, signed to the base 'BECKER, HATTON WALL, LONDON', on three adjustable screw feet, base with single spirit level, vertical dial with ... read more
Sold for £400 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Demonstration Polariscope and slides
lot 225 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1900, unmarked, case opens and forms the base of the apparatus, with fold up brass bound Nicol Prism on a stand facing a glass stack ... read more
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A Cased Crookes' Spinthariscope
lot 226 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1903, engraved to one side of the lacquered body, 'Spinthariscope, W. Crookes' and 'W Watson & Sons Ltd, London' to the other, with ... read more
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lot 227 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
German, c.1900, the hand blown X-ray tube unmarked, articulated wooden stand stamped 'F E Beker, 14 Maiden Lane, London W.C.',tube length
Sold for £250 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Induction Coil Electromagnetic Breaker
lot 228 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
German, c.1910, plaque signed 'Paul Shultz, Kothen-Anh', on cast iron & lacquered brass stand, wooden board with electromagnetic breaker, 23cm tall
Sold for £162 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Large Geissler Tube Rotating Electric Motor
lot 229 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
German, C.1900, unsigned, turned wooden base with terminals for low voltage to motor and high voltage to Geissler tube, brass column supports soft ... read more
Sold for £1,150 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Electrical Experiment Set, Meiser & Mertg
lot 230 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
German, c.1895, the wooden box with lithographed trade label applied to the lid opening to a variety or electrostatic apparatus including a ... read more
Sold for £1,250 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
A Large and Impressive Laboratory Burning Glass
lot 231 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
French, c.1880, unsigned, on large tri-form cast iron foot, with tall upright column finished in lacquered grey oxide, with single drawer and locking ... read more
Sold for £812 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
An Early 18th Century Lignum Vitae Telescope
lot 232 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1750, unsigned, body turned from Lignum Vitae, fixed focus with lenses held in situe with brass clips, with later replacement brass caps ... read more
Sold for £325 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 233 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
late 19th century, adjustable concave eyepiece and convex objective lens in lacquered brass mounts, on printed representation of the lenses and light ... read more
Estimated at £250 - £350 More details 1
lot 234 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1820, engraved around the eyepiece 'Gilbert & Son, London' telescope with mahogany body with internal rack and pinion focusing, lens cap, ... read more
Sold for £525 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 235 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1860, unsigned but with a letter of instructions pasted to the inside of the case lid for Negretti & Zambra, the telescope constructed ... read more
Sold for £338 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Large 2 3/4in Brass Library Telescope
lot 236 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1840, engraved around the eyepiece 'CARY LONDON' the telescope with rack and pinion focusing, star finder, adjustable support with rack ... read more
Sold for £562 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
18th Century Reflecting Telescope
lot 237 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1780, the telescope with 2 1/2 inch tube with fine screw focus to the secondary mirror, 2 shaped wing nuts secure the body to the tripod ... read more
Sold for £1,375 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
A Fine Collection of Polariscope Selenite Magic Lantern Slides
lot 238 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1890, collection of 21 selenite images in black paper borders titles include Selenite Irregular, Quill, Mica Irregular, Mica Crossed, ... read more
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Unusually Large early 19th Century Zograscope
lot 239 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1820, unmarked, constructed of French polished mahogany, large circular base with turned column, lens to front panel, mirror to rear with ... read more
Sold for £562 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
A Set of 12 Hand Painted Natural History Magic Lantern Slides
lot 240 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1860, unmarked, the slides in mahogany frames with 4 hand-painted images of animals, including a Dodo, Tiger, Rhino, Wolf, Elephant Lion ... read more
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A Set of 12 Hand Painted Astronomy Magic Lantern Slides
lot 241 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1860, unmarked, the slides in mahogany frames with hand-painted images including a comet, Saturn, a slip-slide to show the process of a ... read more
Sold for £262 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 242 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1855, unmarked but similar to those by Knight, Foster lane, London, in French polished mahogany, with ground glass screen and mirror for ... read more
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lot 243 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
French(?), c.1880, unsigned, 32cm diameter tinplate drum finished in black paint, on turned polished wooden stand, with 10 picture reels, height 38cm
Sold for £300 Result plus buyers premium More details 11
An Anamorphic image and Silver Viewer
lot 244 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, the viewer hallmarked for London 1997, the viewer made from silver with turned wooden ends, the picture printed and lacquered, viewer height ... read more
Sold for £225 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
French 19th Century Shadow Theatre
lot 245 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
French, c.1880, by 'SAUSSINE, Editeur, PARIS' in paper covered wooden box with elaborate label to lid, stage with transparent fabric window, several ... read more
Estimated at £150 - £250 More details 1
Case of 20 Frith's Photoscopic Pictures
lot 246 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1870, each printed to the front 'FRITHS' PHOTOSCOPIC PICTURES CONTINENTAL VIEWS' with the description in pen to the reverse, cards 19cm x ... read more
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lot 247 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
French, c.1900, lable printed 'Le Praxinoscope Lebenstrad', the 22cm dia. black painted tinplate drum on a turned wood base with label, candle holder, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 2
A Very Large Zoetrope Built for an Exhibition
lot 248 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1990, built for an exhibition, constructed of sheet steel painted and pop riveted on a large wooden stand, with two film reels, diameter ... read more
Sold for £150 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 249 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
French, c.1910, with plaque for 'Stereoscope Magnetique PLANOX, DEPOSE', stereoviewer with rack and pinion focusing to stereo eyepieces, internal ... read more
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lot 250 (Fine Scientific and Medical Instruments, 12th May, 2022)
English, c.1860, serial no. 913, signed around the eyepieces 'Achromatic Smith, Beck & Beck and Stereoscope, 6 Coleman St London', viewer with ... read more
Sold for £475 Result plus buyers premium More details 4