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Wood, Abraham's Optologists
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pamphlet
Wood, Abraham's Optologists
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire, Liverpool
c.1905-1908
paper
overall: 119 x 183.5 mm

Small printed booklet aimed at patients, containing an introduction to the company including an open letter inside the front cover (damaged), a description of 'the new profession' of optology, exterior shop-front photographs of two Liverpool branches, interior photographic-based drawings featuring staff and customers at the counter, in the testing rooms (using an astigmatic fan chart and a reading test type, indirect ophthalmoscopy), illustrations of patent rigid spectaclette (pince-nez), dainty spectaclette (spring-bridge pince-nez) and spiral spring spectaclette (astig), also a pair of rimless spectacles with bifocal lenses and three different versions of the shop sign. 16 pages, printed in black.

2000.304/103

Gift of Joan Young, 2000