Wooden box with interior brass hinges and lock. Inside are two deep trays for extra eye pieces, lenses and chemical vials. The right tray has five storage spots- 1- immersion oil; 2- empty; 3- 4mm lens case; 4- 16mm lens case; 5- 1.9mm lens case. All lens cases are brass with screw tops and Bausch & Lomb Optical Co and logo on them. All are empty. The left hand tray has five storage spots- 1 small glass vial with hand written label (Xylol); 2- empty; 3- empty; 4- 6X eyepiece (Ernst Leitz Wetzler); 5- 5 eyepiece (Bausch & Lomb logo). The microscope is brass, with a 10 eyepiece. The eyepiece and upper tube are removable. The coarse adjustment knobs are brass. The fine adjustment knob is brass and in numbered 0-90 with index marks going clockwise. The top of the know has PAT. FEB 16 1897 embossed on it. The Staging platform has a detachable holder, also brass. Two knobs control up/down, left/right. The below stage has a removable filter that includes two iris openings- on one top, one on bottom. There is also a movable round mirror. The stand and stage are black steel.