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Microscope Museum Collection of antique microscopes and other
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Microscope lamp from Charles Baker
(1950s) Microscope
lamp from Charles Baker, probably from the 1950s (Figure 1). The business of Baker was founded in
London in about 1765, Charles Baker, who was born in 1820, giving his name to
the company from about 1851. When Charles Baker died in 1894 the firm
continued under the same name but run by the Curties
family until it became, in 1936, Charles Baker & Co. and subsequently,
sometime in the 1940s, C. Baker Ltd. The firm’s address mostly given as 244
High Holborn, London (but sometimes 243 and 245, sometimes in combination).
The firm produced optical and surgical instruments. In 1963, Vickers acquired
the C Baker Ltd microscope factory and a new company called Vickers
Instruments was formed. Figure
1. Microscope
lamp by Charles Baker, as featured in a 1960 Gallenkamp’s
catalogue. |