Lacquered Brass Bullseye Condenser Magnifying Glass, c.1910 Interiors

Lacquered Brass Bullseye Condenser Magnifying Glass, c.1910 InteriorsA lacquered brass bullseye condenser desk magnifying glass, c. 1910. This instrument would have originally been used to direct light from a candle or lamp on to a specimen for observation, particularly when using a microscope. The instrument has a circular weighted base and a thumb screw end to the magnifier arm to help manoeuvre the condenser lens with ease. The adjustable stem extends and retracts with ease. Excellent condition throughout.

The work is housed in a glazed gilt and wood frame and displays extremely well

Three of the four labels are fully hallmarked

Frontispiece tissue paper loose to the Geography volume

and there is some discolouration to a small section of the glass at the base (please see photographs)

Gustaaf Van den Meersche died at the age of 79

These masks are carved for initiation and are used only once

clean and bright

but both lids and rims have tested as sterling silver

predominantly on the Tyneside coast

published by William Pickering

A fantastic 19th century bronze wax seal in the form of a monkey

as well as Nicholas I and II and Queen Alexandra of Russia