The stand is Type II, with its original lacquer.
It has a horseshoe foot with a pillar that supports the trunnion. Under
the rectangular stage a swinging arm carries the plano-concave mirror and
there is a movable housing for the condenser, with a knurled knob. It can
accomodate a stop or a condensing lens with iris diaphgram (signed E. Leitz
Wetzlar). The cylindrical limb has an arm that carries rackwork for coarse
focus; fine focus is on the top of the limb by a micrometric screw. The
body tube is provided with draw tube tubulation, this one is graduated.
The nosepiece is of revolver type and carries two objectives.
The objectives are signed: 3 E. Leitz Wetzlar; 7 E. Leitz Wetzlar, with
the corresponding canisters signed at the same manner on the cap.
There are three eyepieces signed:
1) 2 M Ernst Leitz Wetzlar;
2) Ernst Leitz 10 x;
3) 10x W. F. DEPT-HOSP PRO N.Y.C.
Three stops are present. Further additions are: a paper box by Bausch & Lomb containing some cover glasses; a cylindrical paper box with label: ½ Ounce 7/8" Germany; some glass slides and a copper plate signed (with characters the wrong way round): Mr. Roy James Kersey (under the foot is signed by coarse hand: Roy J Kersey).
The mahogany case has a frieze at the base
and at the top, with a brass handle and key. The door is fishbone-type,
with the serial number on it. Two drawers contains the objectives and the
eyepieces.
