M0000254: Nachet collection: two spy glasses

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

Image of two spy glasses probably made in the eighteenth century. The one on the left has a shagreen body and plated mounts. The right has a vellum body decorated with gold and horn mounts. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession number 67382 and 67388).

August 1929

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 13.4 x 9.2 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.