A VICTORIAN LACQUERED BRASS COMPOUND BINOCULAR MICROSCOPEUNSIGNED, LAST QUARTER OF THE 19th CENTURYThe bifurcated tube assembly fitted with triple objective nosepiece set beneath prism slide insert and micrometer fine focus screw, with rack and pinion eye-piece adjustment and coarse focus at the junction with the shaped limb, the stage with X and Y subject screw subject positioning and slide clips over substage assembly, the underside with pivoted plano-concave mirror and the whole raised via pivoted axis support on an elaborate cast oxidised brass looped base, in a mahogany box with four eyepiece lenses, four objective cannisters labelled 1/4, 1, 2 and 3 in to lids, substage prism, rotating oculus diameter adjustment disc with four apertures, prism, condenser lens on stand and a drawer containing twenty-two slides.The box 39.5cm (15.5ins) high, 22cm (8.75ins) wide, 16.5cm (6.5ins) deep.