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Haemometer

ED.CS.2010.261.4

Dark Brown leatherette box stamped in gold reading 'BLUTKOPERZAHLAPPARAT', (meaning blood body counting apparatus) NACHT TOMA. A blood cell counting apparatus made by Carl Zeiss Jena (also stamped on lid). Lower proper right corner of lid is stamped 'University of Edinburgh Clinical Examinations'. Box has a pull pin opening. Interior of box is lned in dark blue velvet, and houses two glass phials, two bakelite and rubber stoppers, and a thick glass slide, which is printed with '0.100mm, 1/400 qmm' on the proper right, and 'C. Zeiss Jena' on the proper left. Carl Zeiss Jena is the Eastern branch of the Carl Zeiss Company and appeared under this name after World War II. At that particular time Carl Zeiss, which had been founded in Jena in 1846 as an optics workshop, was divided between the two German states. One part of the company continued production in Jena, the German Democratic Republic, while the other relocated in Oberkochen, West Germany. When sold in Eastern European countries, the lenses were named "Carl Zeiss Jena". But when sold in the Western countries, they were branded simply “aus Jena” or just "Jena", as Carl Zeiss West Germany had the right to use the original name.

Twentieth century, mid