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View full screenFolding pocket microscope in a case, a microscope of simple type with point for impaling insects, the small handle and magnifying glass folding inwards to make microscope compact for carrying, c. 1800
T.1938.103
Microscope, pocket, folding / case
W. and S. Jones
England, Northern Europe
c. 1800
For other Wilson screw-barrel microscopes, see Turner, G. L'E., The Great Age of the Microscope: the Collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years. Bristol & New York, 1989 pp 258-259