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Diploma of Fellowship Certificate
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certificate
Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London EC4
1950-02-13
paper; glass; wood; metal
overall (frame):

SMC Diploma Certificate and admission to the Company freedom. No 9366, made out to Arthur Leslie Holland. Calligraphic script. Signed. Red seal. Border illustrations include: Huygens' Aerial Telescope 17th c., Modern Equatorial Telescope, Great Pyramid Observatory, Modern binocular microscope, Hooke's monocular microscope 1665, Browning's Spectroscope, Crooke's Radiometer and Rontgen Tube, Oxford University Observatory. Signed by the Master Lionel Berry, and Clerk and Head of Examiners Roland Champness. In a mid-century glazed wooden frame with heavy metal hanging chain.


2021.280

Gift of Mr Graeme Holland, 2021



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