DESCRIPTION: The microscope is signed on the stage: 'C. REICHERT WIEN'. It is a compound microscope with unmarked eyepiece and an objective signed: 'C. REICHERT, WIEN' and the objective is signed: 'N^o 3'. The stage has two stage clips to hold a slide. There is a single opening in its center about 1 cm in diameter. The round stage is about 9 cm in diameter and has three tiny cone-shaped feet screwed on from underneath. From the stage arises the two supporting struts which join a ring to hold the outer microscope tube. A lacquered brass sleeve with four expansion slots screws into the ring. Into this fits the Nickel plated optical tube. The minimum height of the microscope is about 17 cm. A nickel-plated draw tube allows increasing magnification. With it extended, and the microscope focused on the stage, the total height of the instrument extends to 27 cm. There is a knurled locking ring at the top of the lacquered brass sleeve to lock the tube in focus, although there is no provision to lock the draw tube. The optics are intact and the instrument gives good images.