M0000227: Nachet collection: Cuff microscope, Germany

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nachet collection: Cuff microscope, German.

Image of a Cuff microscope with a leather and carved wood body on a wooden base made in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession number R16/1949, store number 60954). The microscope is not held by Wellcome Collection.

August 1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.