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Microscope Museum Collection of antique microscopes and other
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Turntable made by Charles Baker (early 20th
century)
Turntable
made by Charles Baker. The instrument should be dated to the early 20th
century. The same design was used in turntables sold by several companies at
that time, such as Leitz (Figure 1). The business
of Baker was founded in London in about 1765, Charles Baker, who was born in
1820, giving his name to the company from about 1851. When Charles Baker died
in 1894 the firm continued under the same name but run by the Curties family until it became, in 1936, Charles Baker
& Co. and subsequently, sometime in the 1940s, C. Baker Ltd. The firm’s
address mostly given as 244 High Holborn, London (but sometimes 243 and 245,
sometimes in combination). The firm produced optical and surgical
instruments. In 1963, Vickers acquired the C Baker Ltd microscope factory and
a new company called Vickers Instruments was formed.
Figure 1. Turntable made by Leitz, as featured in
catalogues of the firm at least from 1906 to 1926. |
