Description

A Grand Modele Nachet microscope signed on the foot: NACHET et FILS 17 rue St Severin, Paris’ . This is double pillar supported continental limb instrument. It comes with its original dovetailed case, lined in purple silk with padding. Several Nachet accessories are still present with the instrument. The optical tube slides into a carrier split in front to accept it. It has rack and pinion coarse and continental vertical screw fine focus. There are four original objectives and three eyepieces. There is a complete polarized light accessories (polarizer and analyzer) in an original labelled case. The analyzer fits over any standard eyepiece, and would be used with the substage polarizer which fits into the substage ‘condenser fitting’. The entire upper portion of the microscope can rotate around the stage. An understage ‘condenser holder’ swings out. The mirror is plano-concave and easily adjusts in many directions. There is a place in the case for a non present bench condenser for illuminating opaque objects from above. The condition of the microscope is good.

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