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Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller
Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller

Antique Microscope Travel Microscope Merker Austria US Seller

$ 21.12

  • Brand: Merker Austria
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Austria
  • MPN: Not Applicable
  • Microscope Type: Compound Microscope
  • Profession: Optician
  • UPC: Does not apply
  • Viewer: Monocular
  • gtin13: Does not apply

Description

Great condition. Box has wear. See photos. Ludwig Merker was considered by contemporaries to be one of his era’s premier microscope manufacturers of Vienna, Austria, along with Carl Reichert. Little is known of Merker’s personal life. He was reportedly born in Hanover, Saxony (Germany), in 1856. He served an optical manufacturing apprenticeship in Wetzlar, Hesse (Germany), after which he moved to Vienna to work for Reichert. In 1886, Merker and another Reichert employee, Fritz Ebeling, left that company to establish their own microscope-making business. The pair split in 1892-93, each forming his own optical business. Ebeling retained the shop at Hernalser Gürtel, while Merker moved about 1 km away, to Buchfeldgasse. Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, Merker relocated to Czermakgasse. Merker died in 1920, but his microscope-making company persisted under other ownership until well into that century.