Case is a flat, rectangular cardboard box and contains 119 microscope glass slides of pathological specimens; the cardboard is covered with paper that has an embossed dot pattern like leather; the paper pasted on the exterior bottom has a printed pattern of black and white marble; the catch to hold…
Case is a flat, rectangular cardboard box and contains 119 microscope glass slides of pathological specimens; the cardboard is covered with paper that has an embossed dot pattern like leather; the paper pasted on the exterior bottom has a printed pattern of black and white marble; the catch to hold the lid on the box is carboard covered with dark grey paper and is adhered on the interior of the bottom of the box; the lid of the case is connected to the bottom of the box with two metal hinges along the back edge; the lid can be locked with two clasps that have ornamental pressed patterns; the interior of the box has two rows of fifty slots on naked wooden frames; on the left to the left vertical row each slot is numbered 1 to 50 in black, from top to bottom; on the right to the right vertical row, each slot is numbered 51 to 100 in black; the box's interior bottom, the top side of the rows of slots and their bottom side are beige cardboard; a strip of beige cardboard is adhered on the box's interior bottom at the centre of each row of slots so that slides in slots are raised from the bottom; a white paper label is pasted on the interior of the lid; this label is printed in black, ruled, and numbered from 10 to 100 in two vertical rows; notes for each slide can be written in the label's space that corresponds to the slot number of the slide; each slide is labelled with a white square paper sticker on one or both sides; the specimen is usually mounted at the centre of a slide; some slides have notes written by hand with black ink or yellow crayon; there are no slides in slots 22, 61, 77, 88, 90 or 92.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
As Dr. M. Chiong wrote in his note with the collection, this set was "Given to me by Mrs. Luterus in the 1900's. MAC." The first owner's name was Fritz Bunz (MD).
Item belonged to a person who was a physician in the early 1900s.
Material
metal: silver
cardboard: beige
paper: black; grey; white
wood: beige
Inscriptions
The embossed letters on the lid of the case read, "MIKROSKOPISCHE // PRAEPARATE"; the lid is framed with an embossed rectangular line
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-F8-3
Dimension Notes
Length 26.9 cm x Width 17.7 cm x Depth 3.9 cm
Condition Remarks
Clasps and hinges have green and brown corrosion; the exterior surface of the box has losses that are the traces of adhesive tape; the paper label on the interior of the lid has slightly discoloured; there are minor abrasion marks and other losses on the exterior of the box; a blank slide label is adhered to the interior bottom.