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Jones' Most Improved
Type Microscope by Banks,
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¼ 19th C.
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Signed: Banks 440 Strand, LONDON. |
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Foot radius 14 cm, height 47 cm. |
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Box 35 x 27 x 9 cm, with latin motto engraved on the coat of arms: |
| "UT TIBI SIC ALTERI". |
| This is an excellent example of English microscope known as the "Jones' Most Improved" |
| type by Banks. Robert Bancks (or Banks) was working from 1796 to 1834, and he was |
| instrument maker to the Prince of Wales before the latter assumed, in 1811, the Regency |
| during the incapacity of King George III; he had also made instruments for scientists such |
| as Robert Brown. On the paper label inside the case there is the famous motto: "Honi soit |
| qui mal y pense". |
