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A Blunt Culpeper-type Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1820, image 1
A Blunt Culpeper-type Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1820, image 2
The Dr. Murray MacKinnon Collection of Microscopes
Lot 132Ф,Y

A Blunt Culpeper-type Monocular Microscope,
English, circa 1820,

15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,200 - £1,800

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A Blunt Culpeper-type Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1820,

signed Blunt LONDON, of standard Culpeper design, focusing by draw tube, tripod on square mahogany base with drawer fitted with most extant accessories including five objectives, ocular, sprung substage, cone, fishplate, tube and stage forceps, livebox and bone slides, in mahogany pillar case,
the microscope 14 1/2 (37cm) high

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Provenance:
From the collection of Dr MacKinnon.

The signature Blunt may refer to several instrument makers operating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including Charles Blunt and Edward Blunt. Both were opticians recorded as operating in Cornhill, London during this period.

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