Vintage

This microscope dates from the days that the principal microscope manufacturers began to merge their production lines. This Baker microscope is the same shape as Vickers models of the same time. This is all original in in good condition. Objectives x3, x10, x40 and x100 (oil immersion) with a x10 eyepiece. Mechanical stage with coaxial front positioned controls. Full substage condenser with flip top lens. Tungsten illumination. Front coaxial coarse and fine focus controls. A few small chips on the paint work but altogether a nice microscope.

Price £179.17 + vat

Baker 2120 Binocular

This is a fine collector’s piece in very good order with all parts original and working well and is without doubt the best Baker vintage microscope that we have seen in 38 years of trading. It is difficult to fix an exact date of manufacture. Charles Baker was at 244 High Holborn from 1855 to 1959 when they were taken over by Vickers. No serial number list exists although the last was in the region of 40,000. A reasonable guess for this microscope would be 1930’s or so. Finished in Baker grey enamel the body work and chrome parts are in very good condition. Full mechanical stage with two substage condenser systems. A phase contrast plan condenser and an oil dark ground condenser with a screw on dry condenser element The illumination stand allows the microscope to be fixed in place or removed and of particular interest is that there are 5 spare lamps to keep you going.

The objectives are Baker x100 phase oil immersion, Vickers/Baker x10 phase and Vickers x40 phase and x10 Baker eyepieces. In addition there is a monocular head. We are even tempted to keep this for ourselves!

SOLD

Thoma Hawksley Haemocytometer

This is a throwback to pathology of yesteryear when mouth pipetting was allowed. The counting chamber was used to calculate the number of red blood cells as part of the diagnostic tests needed in the 1950’s. A fixed amount of blood was mixed with a fixed amount of isotonic saline and the number of cells counted. Complete with its velvet lined case.

Price £33.33 + vat

Baker Stereomicroscope

This is one for the serious collector. It is a Baker stereomicroscope serial number 20470 which dates it to the 1950’s. It is all original and in excellent condition. It has an objective pair of 1¼ x and x10 eyepieces. What is very clever about its design is the fact that the stand structure enables the head to be positioned for either flat specimens or those which much more depth. This system was unique to Baker at that time. The focus is by rack and pinion and there is a mirror system for transmitted lighting and the stage has specimen clips. This is an excellent piece of British microscope production - a fine opportunity.

SOLD

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Watson Service 11 (3188)

The Watson Service 11(2) is one of the most iconic British made microscope of the mid part of the last century. The most notable thing about them is the build quality and excellent engineering, Everything about them says ‘build quality’. Now of course they are as much a visual marker of those bygone days of British microscope production which means they are often bought to be looked at as well as looked down. This particular unit is both. We have not seen a Service 11 in such good condition. The paint work is exceptional and the chrome controls show no evidence of corrosion at all. It is all original with a x7 Watson eyepiece and four Watson objectives. Para x10 (0.25), Para x15 (0.34), Para x40 (0.70) and Para x100 (1.25) oil immersion. Draw tube, focusing condenser and mirror illumination. A fine microscope of its day.

Price £145.83 + vat

Watson Service 11 (3217)

The Watson Service 11(2) is one of the most iconic British made microscope of the mid part of the last century. The most notable thing about them is the build quality and excellent engineering, Everything about them says ‘build quality’. Now of course they are as much a visual marker of those bygone days of British microscope production which means they are often bought to be looked at as well as looked down. It is not often that we get vintage microscopes of this quality, yet here come two of them. Body work paint is excellent and the chrome controls are almost as new. The serial number is 107582 which dates it to 1951. It is all original with x6, x10 and x40 Watson objectives with the original objective pots. The microscope has the standard Watson draw tube and variable focus stop. Focusing condenser with iris diaphragm. Stage clips. Complete with an excellently refurbished case in excellent condition. Very few of these about these days in this condition

Price £157.50 + vat

Baker Objective Set (3279)

This set dates from the time when phase contrast microscopy was just starting to emerge and the various makers were trying to avoid copyright issues. Baker had developed a condenser system with a bright field cross that matched with retarding crosses in objectives to produce the ‘’phase’ effect. This set has a ‘cross’ condenser with a x10 ‘cross’ phase objective, x10 bright field (non phase) and x100 ‘cross’ phase together with a phase telescope for alignment. All presented in the original excellent case. A collectors must.

Price £120.83 + vat

Watson Service (3266)

A Watson microscope with the serial number of 42443 which makes it’s year of manufacture the best part of a century ago at 1928 - as far as records can tell. This model is in absolutely excellent condition for its age. The body work is black and the controls are brass and the condition of both ia absolutely excellent. It has separate coarse and fine focus controls and a mechanical stage with lateral controls and a specimen pointer. Sub stage condenser with mirror illumination. 4mm and 2mm Watson objectives. Superbly reconstituted Watson case that now looks ‘new’. Opportunities like this are rare.

SOLD

Baker Phase Condenser (3281)

In the early days of phase contrast microscopy, different manufacturers adopted very different mechanisms to avoid issues with copyright (until is was agreed lawfully that you cannot copyright a concept). At this time Baker used a cross system with a condenser that let light through a cross system to be intercepted by a cross retardation in the objective. This is a good example of the ‘cross’ phase condenser with a lever that allows the cross to partially rotate which presumably allows it to match the cross in the objective.

Price £51.67 + vat

Baker Objective Set (3280)

This set dates from the time when phase contrast microscopy was just starting to emerge and the various makers were trying to avoid copyright issues. Baker had developed a condenser system with a bright field cross that matched with retarding crosses in objectives to produce the ‘’phase’ effect. This set has a ‘cross’ condenser on a slider which would fit the larger of the Baker microscopes of that time. The objectives are a x40 phase with a x10 and x100 (oil immersion) bright field together with a phase telescope for alignment. All presented in the original excellent case. A collectors must.

Price £141.67 + vat