Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

    

Microscopes in this page are tentatively organised by period. Please click on the photos below to access more images and information about each instrument and their maker.

  

Drum or Martin-type microscopes

 

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160 (unassigned maker; drum microscope; mid 19th century)

199 (Moreau; drum microscope; mid-19th century)

481 (unassigned maker; drum microscope; c. 1870)

20I (unassigned maker; drum microscope; mid 19th century)

135 (JH Steward; drum microscope; c. 1860)

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190 (assigned to Buron; drum-like microscope No 4; mid-19th century)

112 (unassigned maker; Large Improved Compound Microscope; mid 19th century)

20F (unassigned maker; Large Improved Compound Microscope; mid 19th century)

329 (unassigned maker; drum microscope; mid 19th century)

494 (unassigned maker; Large drum microscope; mid 19th century)

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495 (unassigned maker; drum microscope; mid 19th century)

514 (unknown maker; drum-like microscope; mid-19th century)

 

 

 

 

 

Simple compound microscopes

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325 (assigned to J Parkes & Son; child’s portable compound microscope; c. 1870)

253 (unassigned maker; simple compound microscope; c. 1860)

294 (unassigned maker; single pillar compound microscope; mid-19th century)

479 (Unassigned maker; student microscope; c. 1860)

100 (assigned to J Parkes & Son; c. 1860)

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67 (assigned to J Parkes & Son; c. 1860)

482 (JT Slug; student microscope; c. 1865)

255 (Parkes & Son; compound microscope; c. 1860)

238 (Elliot Brothers; student microscope; c. 1860)

 

 

Triangle foot type microscopes

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159 (R & J Beck; Popular microscope; 1867)

271 (J Parkes & Son; Travelling microscope; c. 1880)

484 (J Parkes & Son; Travelling microscope; c. 1880)

 

 

 

Continental-type microscopes

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195 (R&J Beck; Economic microscope; c. 1878)

330 (R & J Beck; Economic microscope; c. 1878)

 

 

 

 

Other continental type microscopes

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203 (Nachet; Petit Modèle microscope; c. 1862)

170 (Nachet; Petit Modèle microscope; c. 1850)

 

 

 

 

School of Arts-pattern microscopes

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29 (R Field & Son; student microscope; c. 1860)

89 (unassigned maker; mid 19th century)

124 (Negretti & Zambra; microscope No. 2B; c. 1870)

58 (unassigned maker; mid 19th century)

232 (W. Aronsberg; Society of Arts type microscope; c. 1880s)

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244 (unassigned maker; Society of Arts type microscope; c. 1880s)

281 (unassigned maker; Society of Arts type microscope; c. 1880s)

469 (Maw, Son & Thompson; School of Arts type microscope; c. 1880)

485 (R Field & Son; Society of Arts microscope; c. 1860)

 

 

Bar-limb type microscopes and similar

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26 (E. Wheeler; new educational microscope; c. 1870)

88 (C Collins; student microscope; c. 1865)

104 (F. Pastorelli & Co; c. 1870)

207 (unassigned maker; mid-19th century)

254 (C. Baker; educational microscope; c. 1860)

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241 (Charles Baker; student microscope; c. 1870)

229 (JH Steward; microscope stand No. 3; c. 1880)

51 (Negretti & Zambra; c. 1860)

186 (JH Steward; compound microscope stand No 1; c. 1880)

37 (unassigned maker; mid 19th century)

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171 (unassigned maker; Victorian-style microscope reproduction; second half of the 20th century)

17 (Pillischer; student microscope, c. 1860)

202 (Pillischer; International microscope, c. 1880)

470 (Pillischer; ‘The International’ microscope, c. 1877)

105 (C Baker; student microscope; c. 1860)

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228 (unassigned maker; second half of 19th century)

234 (assigned to Charles Collins; student five-guinea binocular microscope; c. 1870)

304 (R & J Beck; student’s microscope; c. 1873)

486 (Smith & Beck; Student’s microscope; c. 1857)

466 (unknown maker; mid-19th century)

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136 (A. Henderson; c. 1865)

468 (unknown maker; mid-19th century)

459 (W. Matthews; compound microscope; c. 1860)

496 (Charles Baker; compound microscope; c. 1860)

 

 

Bar-limb type microscopes with English foot or similar

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53 (FW Sturt; c. 1860)

57 (EG Wood; c. 1865)

86 (unknown maker; c. 1860)

39 (unassigned maker; mid 19th century)

339 (unknown maker; student microscope, second half 19th century)

 

Other microscopes

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94 (Smith, Beck & Beck; Universal Microscope, c. 1860)

134 (Smith & Beck; Educational microscope; c. 1856)

149 (unassigned maker; 1880s)

 

 

 

Lister-limb type microscopes

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123 (Horne and Thornthwaite; c. 1860)

121 (John B Dancer; Wenham-type ‘Large Best’ or ‘No. 1’ binocular microscope; c. 1870)

198 (Pillischer; student microscope, c. 1852)

278 (WJ Salmon; student microscope; c. 1860)

235 (William Ladd; student microscope; c. 1860)

 

 

 

 

264 (assigned to J Parkes & Son; compound microscope; c. 1860)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Culpeper-type compound microscopes and others

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95 (Burke & Jones; Culpeper-type microscope reproduction made in the 1970s)

307 (unknown maker; early 19th century)

 

 

 

 

Cary/Gould-type and boxed microscopes

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90 (assigned to Carpenter & Westley; Cary/Gould type microscope; early 19th century)

111 (unassigned maker; Cary/Gould type microscope; early 19th century)

45 (assigned to R Field & Son; school microscope; c. 1860)

321 (L Casella; Garden or seed microscope; c. 1870)

465 (unknown maker; boxed type microscope; late 19th century)

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501 (Unassigned maker; Cary/Gould type microscope; early 19th century)

277 (R. Field & Son; school microscope; c. 1860)

97 (R Field & Son; school microscope; c. 1860)

322 (unassigned maker; aquatic or botanical microscope; early 19th century)

334 (unassigned maker; botanical microscope; first half of the 19th century)

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487 (unassigned maker; botanical microscope; first half of the 19th century)

175 (unassigned maker; botanical microscope; first half of the 19th century)

 

 

 

 

Simple dissecting microscopes

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382 (assigned to Robert Field; Teasdale's Field Naturalist's Microscope; c. 1880)*

 

 

 

 

 

* Instrument kindly donated by Dave Levell (Pembrokeshire, Wales) in May 2023