Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

    

Microscope 138 (F Davidson & Co; microscope stand O 575; late 1910s)

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F Davidson & Co were manufacturing opticians that traded from 29 Great Portland Street, London, from c. 1890 until 1922, and then from 143 Great Portland Street from 1923 until c. 1938. Microscope 138 is engraved ‘F. DAVIDSON & Co, London’ and should be dated to the late 1910s. This instrument is identified as microscope stand O 575 in one of the company’s 1919 catalogue (Figure 1).

 

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Figure 1. The F Davidson & Co’s microscope stand No. O 575, as engraved in the company’s 1919 catalogue.

 

References

Davon micro-telescope (https://collection.maas.museum/object/259369), last accessed on 28.08.2020

Davidson microscoop (https://antiqueoptics.eu/home/landen/verenigd-koninkrijk/davidson-microscoop/), last accessed on 02.01.2021

 

LAST EDITED: 25.10.2020