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Description of this part for the microscope.

and a single line below it reading: Made in West Germany.

This is not the plate for the base of Zeiss Photomicroscope microscopes. Although it looks similar - it is not the plate for the body of the Zeiss Stereomicroscope either.

This plate has two pins on its inner side. The photo intermediate tube should have two holes into which these pins are pressed. For a firmer hold you can apply some glue to the underside of the plate.

In one of the last photos in the gallery you will see two photo-trino intermediate tubes lying side by side. As you can see, this plate is not fitted at the factory on every variant of the intermediate tube.
- I have not come across it (and I have seen no mounting holes) on the black intermediate tubes of the earliest Carl Zeiss Universal, Ultraphot and Photomicroscope models
- on the latest variants of the Photomicroscope III the logo is printed on the base (instead of a plate) and there is no plate on the intermediate tube

Importantly - intermediate tubes can be swapped between models of this class, so the surest way to tell whether this plate fits a particular tube is to check whether it has mounting holes.

Over the years this plate often fell off or was torn off, so on the second-hand market you can find microscopes with this element missing.

Some users like this style of the older models and, after cutting off the two mounting pins, they glue the plate onto a photo intermediate tube that has no mounting holes.

The last photo in the gallery shows several models of this microscope class standing side by side. Arrows mark the ones that carry a logo plate like the one offered here.