On the 27th May, the Club held its first meeting dedicated to sales. This was to allow members to sell items that they no longer required, or which did not fit into their collections. It also allowed other members to find that missing item that they had been searching for, or of course to add to their collections! Many seemed to be doing both!!
Not all the items on offer where microscopes, this stand had a very impressive display of laboratory glassware and accessories - this view shows only about 30% of it.
Everything from small test tubes, to quite complicated pieces of glassware were on offer.
With so much on offer, it wasn't always easy to find what you were after.
Was this hopeful buyer just trying out the optics of the piece of equipment or was he hoping to find something very special somewhere up near the ceiling?
Of course it may have been a very small telescope.
Our President, Professor Maurice Moss, in serious discussion with Vaughan and Ven Dodge. Not sure whether a sale was in progress, or whether they were discussing the finer points of one of the interesting items they had on the table.
Our thanks must go to Maurice Moss and Phil Greaves for all the effort that went into setting up this meeting, which was certainly very successful. Hopefully this will now become an annual event.
Tony Jarratt