English brass monocular microscope, Philip Carpenter, London, brass frame with scrolling accents, tripodal base on three bun feet, housed in wood box of pyramidal form, set with single drawer, bearing embossed tag, chipped glass slide, microscope: 11.5"h, 5.5"w, 6.5"d, overall: 16.75"h, 9"w, 8.75"d, 4.5lbs total **Provenance: The Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (Cambridge, England, b. 1961-) private collection, from Britannia Manor, his Austin, Texas home, a pioneer and entrepreneur of computer role-playing games, first American second generation space traveler, magician, world class collector of automatons, host of the Austin Shakespeare Festival at his Elizabethan style theatre, the Curtain, on the shores of Lake Austin, an Adventurer traveler form the jungles of Rwanda and the Amazon to meteorite expeditions in Antarctica, purchaser of the Luna 21 moon lander...still at that location, host of the theme parties including the End of the World party, board member of the XPrize and Space Adventurers, etc.** Start Price: $200.00

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