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Microscope Museum Collection of antique microscopes and other
scientific instruments |
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Serial
numbers of antique microscope makers Serial numbers engraved on antique and
vintage microscopes may allow to date the instruments to a good level of
accuracy, although some makers used serial numbers in a somewhat inconsistent
way. From this page, you can access several plots that may help dating
microscopes of some important makers (Bausch & Lomb, James Smith, Smith
Beck & Beck, RJ Beck, Leitz, Reichert, Watson,
and Zeiss; please click on the links above to access these plots for each
microscope maker). Most associations between the dates and serial numbers
were based on the excellent book by Brian Bracegirdle ‘Notes on modern
microscope manufacturers’, published by the Quekett
Microscopical Club in 1996. |