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A Samuel Highley Compound Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1858, image 1
A Samuel Highley Compound Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1858, image 2
Lot 73

A Samuel Highley Compound Monocular Microscope,
English, circa 1858,

15 – 16 February 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£500 - £800

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A Samuel Highley Compound Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1858,

signed Highley's Hospital Microscope, the brass body tube fitted in black-finished cast brass stand, focussing by calibrated screw, with three objectives, plano-concave mirror, magnifier, and livebox, in fitted mahogany case,
the microscope 15 1/2in (39.5cm) high
15in x 8 1/4in x 7in (38cm x 21cm x 18cm) cased

Footnotes

Samuel Highley (1826-1900) is known to have produced scientific instruments on Fleet Street from the early 1850's until 1870. Highley was celebrated for producing simplified yet effective microscope models for Hospital and Student use. In 1862 Highley exhibited at the London International Exhibition, advertising his 'Educational microscope and philosophical instruments'.

For a comparable example in the Royal Microscopical Society Collection, G.L'E Turner, The Great Age of the Microscope, 1989, p. 97, No. 83.

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