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Late 18th Century wooden simple microscope

The cardboard case has a wooden top and bottom and is covered with printed paper. It contains a simple microscope in the shape of a stand of walnut supporting a pillar surmounted by a lens in a wooden mount. The specimen is held on a pin to the side and is focused by bending the pin. Measurements: height 9cm; case: 9,5cm, diam.: 3,5cm  For further photos and informations feel free to contact me. Thank you. Read More...

Opera Glasses

Gilt Metal opera glasses by Lemaire Paris in good condition, noting loss of silk to interior=£100 Pocket opera glasses by Busch Winett, brown painted metal with chamois case=£70 Frodsham patent opera glasses unsigned=£190 Aitchison Patent No.24883 with original leather case=£280 Read More...

Coin Scales

Solomon Henry Patented Coin scales sold by Mr. Pinchbeck in original Fishskin case-smal amount of damage to label-Patent No.1080 Date 12 September 1774=SOLD Semicircular fishskin cased coinscale=£200 German Coin scale by Johann Caspar Mittelstenscheid-early nineteenth century-one weight missing=SOLD Coin scale by SHARP marked also with serial number 138 two weight missing- allegedly made from mulberry tree in Shakespeares garden=£240 Read More...

Military Wehrmacht WW2 unit Areometer 1936 fa Leitz-Bergmann Berlin

Military Wehrmacht WW2 unit Areometer 1936 fa Leitz-Bergmann Berlin in a box. Use: For brake fluids on guns, coolant on machine guns and cooking bath fluids for field kitchens ) complete and in Good condition, rare, with the original description. Dimensions box 38 X 11 X 6 cm The tin drum contains unused paper control sticks Will be well packaged and sent by registered mail Read More...

Lutter Tongue depressor, C 1900

Lutter Tongue depressor or forceps, C 1900. Polished Steal and signed by the joint. Length 15 cm. Look for shop information on www.vanleestantiques.com  Read More...

Set of Riefler Drawing Instruments

A set of Riefler drawing instruments, marked on the case ‘C. Riefler,Nesselwang & Munchen. Complete but the case mildly scruffy Read More...

Lot 19th-century microscope parts and accessories

Items include parts of an 1840s drum microscope, condensers, substage and supra-stage prisms, Nicol prisms, shutter discs, livebox, and more. Read More...

Late 19th / early 20th century projection microscope attachment for magic lantern by Zeiss

Probably based on Manson’s Patent Lantern & Table Microscope, which was awarded a silver medal at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Exhibition in 1884. This  Read More...

Mucor Mucedo model by Osterloh, 1880

A teaching model of Mucor Mucedo – Kopf und Brotschimmel – Nr 110 – made by Osterloh 1880. The greatly enlarged scale of the fungus, Mucor mucedo let known as hyphae, the hyphen, see those on the ground, such as bread or a fruit walk. The model dates from the time of Fleming. These are fungi that after a day or so to appear on bread they like watt overgrow. The substances produced by fungi digest bread. The substances Read More...

A 19th century Human Eye Model / a Camera obscura

A Human Eye Model 19th century, lacquered brass, two adjustable lens fittings (for correcting myopia and hyperopia). Original condition noting a dent in the stand. Read More...

A good David Beringer Cube Sundial

A polyhedral Cube Sundial by David BERINGER (1756-1821)  a so called “Wuerfelsonnenuhr”  Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, after 1777.  Wood with colored engraved paper gores, brass gnomons, and rectangular base with compass.  Original condition with later brass plummet.  Read More...

Early 20th Century brass German Kriegsmarine Sextant – Haecke, Germany

Very fine and complete sextant of black painted brass in original case. The inside is simply but effectively furnished. The platinum scale, graduated from -5 to 135 degrees, set in a brass arc. Made by Haecke in Neukölln. In the handle is a crown with the letter M and number 1634, the same number as in the case. Case with brass parts.  Catalogue: NM.5-39Date: 1900-1915HWL case: 13.5×29.5×27 cmHW sextant: 25×23.5 cmSigned: H. Haecke Neukölln 7141Origin: GermanyCondition: in good and complete Read More...