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Patent for a type of half shade polariscope used by the U.S. Customs Service. Light passes-through a tube containing sugar solution-into the eye piece, which was rotated to reveal a fully circular clear image. The degree of rotation of the eyepiece corresponds to the level of sucrose, which in turn marks the quality of the sugar product.
