Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

Microscope 524 (Unassigned maker; student microscope; mid-19th century)

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Microscope 524 is a student microscope and should be dated to the mid-19th century. The instrument is not signed but its body is similar to other instruments made by several makers in the 19th century (Figure 1). The instrument came with its original wooden box.

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Figure 1. Student microscope made by Amadio in 1867, as featured in a 2005 catalogue of the Science Museum in London (left); Microscope made by Ross, as featured in an 1856 B. Pike’s catalogue (center); and Small achromatic microscope in the 1871 catalogue of Ash & Sons (right)