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Microscope
248 (Nachet; Microscope
nouveau modéle inclinant; c. 1880) Camille
Sébastien Nachet (1799 – 1881) started by working with Charles Chevalier and
set up his own business in 1839. At that time, Chevalier, Oberhauser and
Nachet were the main producers of microscopes in Paris. In the late 1850s,
Nachet was joined by his son, Jean Alfred Nachet (1831-1908), who went by the
name of Alfred. The firm was renamed Nachet et Fils around 1862, when Alfred
was made a partner. Nachet was succeeded by his son, who named the firm ‘A
Nachet’ from about 1880 to about 1890, when it became ‘Nachet et Fils’ once
more when Alfred's son joined the partnership. By 1898 Nachet had taken over
Hartnack and Prazmowski and also ‘Bezu, Hausser et cie’. The firm traded from
Rue Serpente, Paris (1839 – 1862), Rue Séverin, Paris (1862 until after WW2),
and Rue Chaptal 106, Levallois-Perret (1970s). Microscope 248 is engraved
with ‘Nachet et Fills, 17 Rue St Séverin, Paris’ and should be dated
to c. 1880. This microscope should be a version of Nachet’s “Microscope
nouveau modéle inclinant” (Figure 1). The instrument came with its
original wooden box. Figure 1. Nachet’s “Microscope nouveau
modéle inclinant” as pictured in the firm’s catalogues of 1872 (left) and
1886 (right). References Nachet medium
new-model compound microscope (http://waywiser.fas.harvard.edu/objects/3018/nachet-medium-newmodel-compound-microscope;jsessionid=240914E20BA6365C4E2A04CD82CFD6A0?ctx=21f1cee2-b440-4b31-9a87-95a6fe6cc1d9&idx=24), last accessed on 12.03.2022 LAST
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