M0000252: Nachet collection: two spy glasses

Date:
August 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/4/10
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M0000252: Nachet collection: two spy glasses. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nachet collection: two Spy glasses

Description

Image of spy glasses with ivory bodies probably made in the eighteenth century. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession 67379 and 67380). The items are not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

August 1929

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 10 x 15 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier

Notes

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.

Terms of use

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

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