Components of Microscope #87
Components: A: Illuminating mirror (4cm dia.); B: Wooden sample support; C: Central support pillar with rack & pinion focus; D: Sample stage; E: microscope tube support (objective side facing up); F: ivory microscope tubes; G: objective lenses; H: stage forceps. There appears to be a missing other microscope body support arm. Only one objective is capable of screwing into the existing arm (E).
Sample stage can have this wooden insert. The insert is cork on one side. The microscope body and objectives screw into the brass support arm: body tube above and objectives below.
The ivory microscope body consists of two parts: the body tube (A) and eyepiece (B). The eyepiece slides within the body to a position consistent, it seems, with the back focal length of the objectives.