Vintage Microscopes

Dive into the world of small and very small things! This fully functional microscope in the style of the old brass instruments offers triple lens acrylic optics, a 40-fold magnification (hair appears like thick cords and art prints appear like speckled flowers). Each with a freely pivoting up and illuminating mirror and PET film for making slides. Punched cardboard, noble gold print. With detai..

This microscope was formerly used at Bedford College. It features a mechanical x-y stage, i.e. a couple of knobs allow you to easily move the stage up/down or left/right. Classic microscopes such as this one are beautiful (and heavy!) display pieces, exhibiting the fine workmanship and materials (no plastic!) of a bygone era. They are also very usable and give excellent images, although if ..

From the 36th Philip Harris catalogue (1913): Microscope No. 1, of simple design, substantial construction and nicely finished, suitable for elementary Botanical and Biological work. This instrument is provided with a horseshoe form of base, and inclinable stand, draw tube, coarse adjustment by rack and pinion, and fine adjustment by screw to stage. Large square stage fitted with cylinder d..

A good working vintage microscope. The eyepiece and objectives are are all clean, images are fine, coarse & fine controls are smooth, if a little tight. From the Philip Harris catalogue edition 36 (1913): Watson's "Service'' Microscope. This stand is in a class by itself, being intended to provide for future as well as present requirements by the addition of standar..

This is a small brass microscope from 1904 which has 30x optical zoom. Although it was presumably manufactured by a French company, because it says 'Grossissement' and '1 Lentille....... 30 fois', the instructions are writen in English. The box is in good condition except for a small piece of wood used to hold the microscope has broken off, but is still in the box so could be gl..