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Microscope Museum Collection of antique microscopes and other
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Microscope
289 (Charles
Baker; dissecting microscope; 1930s)
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. Microscope 289 is a dissecting microscope signed with
‘C. Baker, London’ (Figure 1). The instrument should be dated to the 1930s
and came with its original wooden box.
Figure
1. A
dissecting microscope from Charles Baker as featured in a 1939 catalogue of Gallenkamp. References Charles
Baker (https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Charles_Baker), last accessed on 12.08.2020 LAST
EDITED: 22.10.2022 |
