Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

          

Mounting cabinets, turntables, and micrometers

Please click on the photos below to access more images and information about each instrument and their maker.

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(8) Cabinet box for slide preparation Watson & Sons Ltd

(38) Collection of microscope slide preparation items

(6) Glassware, brass table, wood base, ringing table

(22) Facile ball-bearing turntable from Watson (early 20th century)

(24) Ringing table from an unassigned maker (early 20th century)

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(4) Ringing table from Flatters & Garnett

(72) Turntable by Flatters & Garnett

(55) Ringing table from Charles Baker

(108) Ringing table from Aylward

(109) Ringing table

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(124) Ringing table from J. Lizars

(84) Ringing table from Charles Baker

(23) Carl Zeiss cover glass screw gauge (early 20th century)

 

 

 

Microscope slides

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(1) Pine box with permanent slides

(46) Collection of microscope slides

(132) Microscope slides and box (Benn Franks Ltd)*

 

 

 

* Item kindly donated by Margaret Brown (Cumbria, England) in July 2024