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Microscope Museum Collection of antique microscopes and other
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Microscope
52 (Banks
Bros; late 19th century)
Limited information is available about the company Banks
Bros. The only reference found to this company was in an 1881 edition of the
journal “The Northern Microscopist”, where we can read “On Nov. 19th,
the third annual Conversazione of this Society [Bolton Microscopical Society] was held in the Albert Hall
… As to microscope stands and objectives, nearly all the leading makers in
this country were well represented. Messrs. Ross and Co., Smith and Beck,
Messrs. R. and J. Beck, Messrs Swift and Son, Crouch, Baker, Dancer, Parkes and Banks Bros., of Corporation Street, Bolton,
all seemed to have found purchasers in the members of this Society”.
Microscope 52 is signed “Banks Bros, Corporation St, Bolton” and
should be dated from the late 19th century. An identical
instrument is featured in a late 1800s catalogue of Negretti
and Zambra (Figure 1), where it was described as
the Brewer’s microscope and “specially constructed for the examination and
selection of hops, yeast, malt, sugar and water previous to use for brewing”.
Figure 1. Brewer’s microscope
as featured in a late 1800s catalogue of Negretti
and Zambra LAST EDITED: 15.08.2020 |
