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A good Smith Beck & Beck `Large and Best` No.1 model lacquered binocular microscope, c.1860, numbered 4157 and marked Smith Beck & Beck, 31 Cornhill, London, with original mahogany case, also housing various lenses, instruments and accessories, fitted in two separate mahogany boxes, together with a matching microscope slide cabinet, fitted with twenty nine drawers complete with various glass slides enclosed by a single glazed door, together with an R & J Beck brass mounted microscope oil lamp, in original travel case and various books relating to microscopy including The Achromatic Microscope by Richard Beck in which this microscope is featured, see plates 25 and 26, also with Royal Mail Microscopes First Day Cover pack which includes four stamps and gives details of this microscope on the reverse
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