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Portable telescope & stand in sharkskin cases – Dollond.

A good clean 3 draw telescope by Dollond with red mahogany barrel measuring 9.5 inches when closed and 28.25 inches fully drawn with a crown / flint main lens of 41 mm. The first draw is segmented into three parts with a four lens arrangement and the eyepiece has a drop down sun shade. The telescope is damage free and very clean. The tripod column can be unscrewed to reveal a steel corkscrew for the user to fix to a Read More...

ref 23 BRASS SMALL GOULD TYPE MICROSCOPE WITH ACCESSORIES , RATCHET WORKS SMOOTHLY,BOX MOUNTED C 1810

NOTHING BROKEN , NO REPAIRS,  SOME STAINING TO MIRROR.  NO NAME ON MICROSCOPE. BOX 4 IN. x 3.25 IN. CLOSES WELL   Read More...

~GOOD ELLIS AQUATIC MICROSCOPE~

A good simple microscope with 2 Lieberkuhned objectives (beads intact) and exhibiting aquatic (side to side) motion/focussing via a round rotating rod inside of the upright. The stage inserts by means of a chamfered ear and the other ear is for the hinged stage forceps. Stage insert is a concave glass with a tiny edge chip (no B/W ivory disc). The stem is cylindrical with a boxed out area with hole for the mirror stem. The 2 inch, single Read More...

SOLD – Peter Dollond three draw pocket telescope.

SOLD – This three draw telescope measures 10.3 cms closed and almost 37 cms fully open and has a main lens aperture of 2.6 cms. The wooden barrel is made of Honduras flame mahogany. Signed, ‘Dollond, London’, the signature appears on the first draw and is engraved from the offside of the telescope (with the eyepiece to the left). The first draw is also constructed in a three piece segmented fashion with a four-lens eyepiece arrangement produced by John & Read More...

Gregorian telescope by Springer, Bristol

A fine 3″ Gregorian telescope with good original lacquer, the stand has similar design features as ones we have had by Adams. Joshua Springer worked 1759-1809   Read More...

Library lens in shagreen case as seen on the Edward Scarlett trade card

A rare 18th century oval magnifying lens in the original black shagreen case, I have only ever seen a couple of these, and  one appears on the trade card for Edward Scarlett see image. The lens has a fault within the glass but is all there. One in the science museum calls it an Edward Scarlett type reading lense  First half of the 18th century  Ivory registration VAR3BCTA   Read More...

SILVER STANHOPE FOLDING MINIATURE MICROSCOPE MAGNIFYING GLASS, LENS GOOD, IMAGE SHARP,ALL GOOD.

SOLID SILVER POCKET MICROSCOPE, IN GOOD FUNCTIONING CONDITION Read More...

NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA BRASS DESK STANDING WEATHER FORECAST BAROMETER DATED 1915 WITH ITS CASE

IN EXCELLENT WORKING CONDITION, CASE HAS SOME STAINS ON IT . 5 IN. DIAMETER . FUNCTIONS WELL,DATED 1915 PATENT  6276 Read More...

“THE MOST IMPORTANT VICTORIAN BOOK ON CINEMATOGRAPHY” (1899), ASSOCIATION COPY

HOPWOOD, Henry V.; BULL, Lucien (his copy) Living Pictures: Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working. With a Digest of British Patents and Annotated Bibliography Published by The Optician & Photographic Trades Review, London, 1899 8vo; pp. i xii (ads and prelims), 275, [1, errata], xiii xxvii (ads). A note opposite the title page signed by Stanley Bowler, dated 20 April 1967, indicates that this copy was once in the possession of Lucien Bull (1876-1972), the French-Irish inventor, ‘chronophotographer’ and assistant to Étienne-Jules Marey. Read More...

Compass

Printed paper compass dial. Good working order  Read More...

THROUGHTON & SIMMS PLAIN THEODOLITE EARLY 19TH CENTURY.

SHIPPING BY FEDEX, UPS, DHL, ETC. FULLY TRACKED.  Contact Email:  [email protected] Read More...

CASED INCLINOMETER LEVEL by JOHN DAVIS.,C 1850, WITH COMPASS & 2 SPIRIT LEVELS

MADE by JOHN DAVIS & SONS  , DERBY .  C1850 BOXWOOD AND BRASS INCLINOMETER LEVEL , IN EXCELLENT  CONDITION, CALIBRATED BRASS HINGE  AND HINGED BRASS SIGHT. NOTHING BROKEN, NO REPAIRS. FULLY FUNCTIONAL   Read More...