
Jon Baddeley
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Provenance:
From the collection of Dr MacKinnon.
John Tuther is known to have worked in London between 1816-1828, selling microscopes, balances, prospect glasses and barometers. The present instrument can be dated to the earlier years of Tuther's career, due to his shop being based on King Street in Bloomsbury in 1816 and 1817 only. Following this brief period, operations were moved to High Holborn. Although this pocket microscope bears a construction evocative of the Cary-Gould type, Charles Gould did not advertise his popular model until 1826.