A FINE LACQUERED-BRASS COMPOUND MICROSCOPE BY JOHN CUFF, LONDON, CIRCA 1745
signed around the aperture on the cruciform stage J. Cuff London Invt. & Fecit, the 7in. main tube with eye-piece dust slide, rectangular-section pillar engraved with objective settings 1-6, clamp screw and fine-screw focusing adjustment, substage mirror, secured to a base with internal accessories, drawer containing six numbered objectives; swivelling platform lens; ebony loup; bone handled tools; tweezers; platform forceps; ivory canister of slide spares; contained in pyramidal storage case with top handle and internal drawer containing fish-plate; wet box; Bonnani spring stage; Lieberkuhn reflector; substage cone; fish skin-covered case of numbered bone slides with original specimen interest etc., the box -- 17½in. (44.5cm.) high

Condition Report
In fine overall condition; the 30mm. stage condenser is a later replacement.

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