ALFRED BROOKS POCKET MICROSCOPE:

c. 1855

SIGNED: BROOKS, LUDGATE STREET, LONDON

Serial Number: None

DESCRIPTION

HISTORY OF ALFRED BROOKS INSTRUMENTS

DESCRIPTION

This little microscope has a height of 7.5 inches. Signed on the base: 'Brooks Ludgate Street London' and on the label inside the surface of the lid: 'BROOKS Optician & Mathematical Instrument MAKER 41 Ludgate Street London'. With 17mm optical tube with two (of 3 ?) button type objectives, rack and pinion focus to the stage, live box , convex substage mirror screwing into round base. 3 ivory sliders but only one complete, one with 2 of 5 specimens, the other empty.

HISTORY OF ALFRED BROOKS MICROSCOPES

Alfred Brooks sold instruments from 1849-59 at the above address. Other instruments with the same signature are known. He was known to have sold, for example, a Camera Lucida drawing aid in a similar red-colored case (Fleaglass.com, 2012), and other instruments such as sextants, and the like. Another (unsigned) microscope with many identical features, but in the form of a Botanical microscope is also in this collection. The mirror assemblies, arms, knobs, and pillars are identical.