1st May, 2000 12:00
Instruments of Science and Technology
129
A Brass Compound Microscope, by Carl Reichert, Ca. 1900.
A Brass Compound Microscope, by Carl Reichert.
Vienna, Austria, circa 1900.
Signed to the tube "C. Reichert, VIII Bennogasse 26, Wien", with horseshoe shaped base, focus by rack and pinion and fine focusing knob on the limb.
Measurement: H. 32 cm.
catalogue Note: Carl Reichert was born on December 26, 1851 in Sersheim, Germany and died on December 12, 1922 in Vienna. Reichert was an optician who established one of the principal microscope manufacturing firms in Europe in the late 19th century.
Reichert married into the Leitz family in 1874. In 1876 in Vienna, he founded the Optische Werke C. Reichert. He employed some Leitz technicians, explaining one reason that his products were so similar to those of Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar.
Among other things, Reichert designed new lenses, lighting equipment for microscopes, a heating microscope (1909), and one of the first microscopes for the study of metal surfaces.
By 1900, the company had produced 30,000 microscopes.
Although Reichert instruments are usually signed "C. Reichert, Wien," the proper name of the firm was "Optische Werke C. Reichert." The firm was partially sold to American Optical in 1962 and fully taken over in 1972.
Estimate: 80-100
Sold for €130
A Brass Compound Microscope, by Carl Reichert.
Vienna, Austria, circa 1900.
Signed to the tube "C. Reichert, VIII Bennogasse 26, Wien", with horseshoe shaped base, focus by rack and pinion and fine focusing knob on the limb.
Measurement: H. 32 cm.
catalogue Note: Carl Reichert was born on December 26, 1851 in Sersheim, Germany and died on December 12, 1922 in Vienna. Reichert was an optician who established one of the principal microscope manufacturing firms in Europe in the late 19th century.
Reichert married into the Leitz family in 1874. In 1876 in Vienna, he founded the Optische Werke C. Reichert. He employed some Leitz technicians, explaining one reason that his products were so similar to those of Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar.
Among other things, Reichert designed new lenses, lighting equipment for microscopes, a heating microscope (1909), and one of the first microscopes for the study of metal surfaces.
By 1900, the company had produced 30,000 microscopes.
Although Reichert instruments are usually signed "C. Reichert, Wien," the proper name of the firm was "Optische Werke C. Reichert." The firm was partially sold to American Optical in 1962 and fully taken over in 1972.
Estimate: 80-100
Auction: Instruments of Science and Technology, 1st May, 2000
Hessink's proudly presents the sale of a fine single owner collection of Instruments of Science and Technology. The sale offers you a great opportunity to purchase beautiful selection of globes, microscopes, telescopes, medical, drawing, surveying and navigational instruments from famous instrument makersfrom the 17th to the 20th century.
