Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

Microscope 232 (Aronsberg; Society of Arts type microscope; 1880s)

The brothers Woolf Aronsberg and Maurice Aronsberg, originally from a region now within Latvia, established optical firms in the 1860s, respectively in Manchester and Liverpool. W. Aronsberg is also known to have operated a branch in Leeds in 1886. Both brothers sold microscopes, although most of the instruments were made by other manufacturers. Both of the Aronsberg businesses persisted for several decades. Microscope 232 is a bar-limb, Society of Arts type microscope engraved with ‘Aronsberg, Manchester & Leeds’ and should be dated to the 1880s.

References

Society of Arts brass microscope by Aronsberg - c1860 (http://www.arsmachina.com/s-aronsberg1213.htm), last accessed on 24.12.2021

Woolf (William) Aronsberg, ca. 1833 – 1908, Maurice Aronsberg, ca. 1835 – 1911 (http://microscopist.net/Aronsberg.html), last accessed on 24.12.2021

LAST EDITED: 24.12.2021