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Microscope 2 (assigned to Edouard
Lutz; Modéle des ecoles
primaires; c. 1890) Edouard Lutz (1832-1895) was a
manufacturing optician who operated out of Paris at Boulevard Saint Germain
in the late 19th century. The firm was founded in 1848 and Lutz
supplied a variety of optical instruments, including a school microscope (Modéle des ecoles primaires), a pocket dissecting model, and achromatic
models. Microscope 2 is a small compound field microscope of French origin
designed for use of primary school students, made of lacquered brass except
for the gold-painted iron foot. The instrument is not signed. However, it is
assigned to Edouard Lutz, being identical to his Modéle
des ecoles primaires,
dated to c. 1890 (Figure 1A). The difference of microscope 2 to the Modéle des ecoles primaires is the absence, in microscope 2, of the
knurled knob allowing the fine focusing. A possibility is that microscope 2
is an earlier and simpler version of the model depicted in the c. 1890
catalogue. Indeed, an identical instrument without the focusing knob is
featured in the American Ernest Goldbacher’s 1879
catalogue, where it is described as a non-achromatic microscope of French
origin (Figure 1B). Figure
1.
Modéle des ecoles
primaires microscope as shown in the c. 1890
Edouard Lutz catalogue (A), and an identical microscope featured in the
American Ernest Goldbacher’s 1879 catalogue (B) References Edouard
Lutz (c. 1890) Extract du catalogue general des instruments d’optique Modéle des Ecoles
primaires (https://www.microscope-antiques.com/lutz.html), last
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