I am not convinced by the provenance history of the VMS

[anejati]

No, they aren't microscopes.

"Ornate object made via You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view./You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."could describe such a large variety of objects that it's impossible to narrow it down. They could be pots, kitchenware, musical instruments, shafts, pulleys, pipes, decorative ornaments ... the list is endless. Here's some You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. jars. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. who makes turned ornaments.

If you think they're microscopes you'd have to explain why someone would just randomly draw a large number of pictures of microscopes but never even show a single cell (or any other object!) under a microscope.

Pulling a large number of unsubstantiated ideas out of the air just to support an increasingly unlikely hypothesis is not a route that's likely to really discover anything about the VMS.