Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

     

       

James Swift / James Swift & Son (London, England)

Listed below are most microscopes, mechanical stages, lamps and/or other items pictured in the catalogues of this maker or retailer (for which I have a copy), including the information about the year each image appeared and a brief description.

 

Image

Catalogue’s publication year

Observations from the catalogue

J. Swift (1860s; 1870s)

Captain Perry’s new form of arm of microscope

J. Swift (1860s; 1870s)

Microscopist’s lamp

J. Swift (1860s)

Best compound microscope, No. 1 A

J. Swift (1860s)

Best compound microscope, No. 1 B

J. Swift (1860s)

Binocular and monocular microscopes as made for the Royal Microscopical Society of London

J. Swift (1860s)

Binocular and monocular microscopes as made for the Royal Microscopical Society of London

J. Swift (1860s)

Complete student’s microscope, monocular

J. Swift (1860s)

Educational microscope

J. Swift (1860s)

Student’s binocular microscope

J. Swift (1860s)

Swift’s £15 15s. binocular microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

Best compound microscope No. 1

J. Swift (1870s)

Best compound microscope No. 2

J. Swift (1870s)

Best compound microscope of the Jackson Lister, or crane arm form, No. 1

J. Swift (1870s)

Best compound microscope of the Jackson Lister, or crane arm form, No. 2

J. Swift (1870s)

Blankley’s simple tank microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

Cheap microscope lamp

J. Swift (1870s)

Improved pocket clinical and sea-side microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

New concentric stage tripod microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

New portable compound microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

New portable dissecting microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

New university student’s microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

Presentation binocular microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

Small pocket microscope

J. Swift (1870s)

Swift’s improved Hartnack or continental form of microscope

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Best challenge microscope

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Challenge microscope A, No. 5

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Challenge microscope C, No. 3

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Class dissecting microscope

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Dunning’s new portable oil tight lamp

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Paragon microscope

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Ramsden positive eyepiece micrometer

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Simple dissecting microscope

J. Swift (1892; 1906)

Stephenson’s binocular microscope

J. Swift (1892)

‘Wales’ microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Advanced students’ microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Bacteriological microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Best microscope lamp

J. Swift (1892)

Cheap microscope lamp

J. Swift (1892)

Complete petrological microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Dunning’s turntable

J. Swift (1892)

Large presentation microscope, No. 1

J. Swift (1892)

Mayall’s mechanical stage

J. Swift (1892)

Microscope lamp

J. Swift (1892)

New college microscope

J. Swift (1892)

New college microscope

J. Swift (1892)

New petrological microscope

J. Swift (1892)

New registered Silk-Mercer’s microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Pocket clinical and sea-side microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Portable compound binocular microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Portable dissecting microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Portable folding microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Small pocket microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Student’s petrological microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Students’ microscope

J. Swift (1892)

Swinging substage microscope, No. 7

J. Swift (1892)

University microscope, no. 12

J. Swift (1906)

Advanced students’ petrological microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Army bacteriological microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Continental stand

J. Swift (1906)

Draper’s improved dichroiscope

J. Swift (1906)

Draper’s improved dichroiscope

J. Swift (1906)

Engineers’ metallurgical microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Extra large lamp for photography

J. Swift (1906)

Histological & physiological microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Histological & physiological microscope ‘The Discovery’

J. Swift (1906)

Improved clinical, zoologist & field microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Incandescent lamp for the microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Microscope for bacteriological research

J. Swift (1906)

Microscope lamp

J. Swift (1906)

New compound metallurgical microscope

J. Swift (1906)

New form of Nernst electric lamp

J. Swift (1906)

New patent mechanical stage

J. Swift (1906)

New pattern microscope lamp

J. Swift (1906)

New petrological microscope

J. Swift (1906)

New portable clinical pocket microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Newly designed research microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Newly designed university binocular microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Portable histological & physiological microscope

J. Swift (1906)

Stephenson’s binocular microscope

J. Swift (1910s; 1914)

Advanced students’ petrological microscope

J. Swift (1910s; 1914)

Dick petrological microscope

J. Swift (1910s; 1914)

Improved Dick petrological microscope

J. Swift (1910s; 1914)

Large photographic petrological microscope

J. Swift (1910s; 1914)

Petros petrological microscope

J. Swift (1910s; 1914)

Survey petrological microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Army microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

B.S.G. standard microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Delepine microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Didaxis microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Dissecting microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

High power binocular

J. Swift (1910s)

I.M.S. Microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Incandescent gas lamp

J. Swift (1910s)

Nelson-Dallinger oil lamp

J. Swift (1910s)

Opalex A electric lamp

J. Swift (1910s)

Pointolite B electric lamp

J. Swift (1910s)

Popular oil lamp

J. Swift (1910s)

Portable clinical and field microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Premier microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Research microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Simple petrological microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Stephenson binocular microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Symposium microscope

J. Swift (1910s)

Thorlux gas lamp

J. Swift (1910s)

Universal microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Arc lamp

J. Swift (1914)

Arsenal metallurgical microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Improved Nernst electric lamp

J. Swift (1914)

Incandescent gas lamp

J. Swift (1914)

Jackson-Blount metallurgical microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Large measuring and screw testing microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Large measuring and screw testing microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Measuring microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Nelson-Dallinger lamp

J. Swift (1914)

Popular lamp

J. Swift (1914)

Sideros metallurgical microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Simple petrological microscope

J. Swift (1914)

Workshop metallurgical microscope

A black and white photo of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

J. Swift (27th edition)

Binocular head

J. Swift (c. 1890)

New histological & physiological microscope

J. Swift (c. 1890)

New histological & physiological microscope

J. Swift (c. 1890)

New histological & physiological microscope

J. Swift (c. 1890)

Portable histological and physiological microscope

J. Swift (c. 1890)

Recently patented 4-legged microscope stand

J. Swift (c. 1890)

Students’ petrological microscope