Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

Microscope 412 (Carl Zeiss and J Swift; Zeiss’s Greenough microscope on a Swift’s foot; mid-1930s)

 

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Microscope 412 is unusual, with a Greenough binocular head by Carl Zeiss, with the serial number 131447 and dated to the mid-1930s, and a Crouch-type foot engraved with “J SWIFT & SON, LONDON”. No more information was found about this instrument, which came with an original polished wooden box.

Note: this instrument was kindly donated by Dave Levell (Pembrokeshire, Wales) in May 2023.