Improved Stanhope Lens by Francis West of Fleet Street London J & WE Archbutt although the components have been

although the components have been stripped

Unlike many of its kind

the Stockholm exhibition of 1866 and the Paris exhibitions of 1867 and 1878 where the company found equal success

The journal “The Optician” was created in 1891 and in 1895 when Hyatt-Wolf created The British Optical Association (BOA)

The company continued until the mid-1870’s whereafter it was renamed Callaghan & Co suggesting a change of ownership or a passing to later members of the family but it seems to have flourished until the onset of The Great War

Improved Stanhope Lens by Francis West of Fleet Street London J & WE Archbutt although the components have beenFor sale, a William IV period improved Stanhope lens by Francis West of 83 Fleet Street, London. The Stanhope lens so called because it was considered to have been invented by Charles, The Third Earl Stanhope, is a simple microscope comprised of glass cylinder with two convex ends and which could be used for rudimentary scientific investigation. It was popularised due to its easy accessibility to the public in a period when microscopy was a growing