Universal Microscope by R & J Beck of London, 1867

Universal Microscope by R & J Beck of London, 1867.

Serial number: 4757.

Circular base marked: UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE - R & J BECK LONDON.

In original fitted case with brass handle: H: 33.5 cm.

Focusing by Fusee chain drive.

Literature: 

Richard Beck's The Achromatic Microscope, 1865. 

Collecting Microscopes, Gerard L'Estrange Turner, Mayflower Books, 1981. Page 73.

For a similar Universal Microscopes by Smith, Beck & Beck see the collections of:

The Science Museum, London. (Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection) Object number: A18435. 

Billings Microscope Collection at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington DC.

The Golub Collection, University of California, Berkeley.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. (Clay collection) Inventory No : 35661.

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