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Zeiss Teleater
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
pamphlet
Carl Zeiss (Jena)
Europe: Germany, Thüringen, Jena
1923
paper
overall: 160 mm x 111 mm

Pamphlet promoting a range of opera glasses. A6 portrait format printed in partial colour on six sides, folded. Front cover features a drawing of a Mother-of-Pearl opera glass on a telescopic handle, plus an image of an actress on a stage, wearing period costume. The inner pages discuss the advantages of the device at the theatre, for example in viewing more than one actor at a time, an adjustable focusing so that the user may view the audience during the interval! Includes product options and a range of available accessories. Also three illustrations comparing various fields of view. Back cover features a promotion for Zeiss Wide-angle Prism binoculars including the Deltrintem, Delturisem and Delactis models.

2016.977

Transferred from the former Museum and Library of Optometry, Aston University / Gift of the family of the late Anthony G. Sabell FCOptom, 2016