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How can a piece of plastic costing a few coppers be worth £50
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G. Nissel & Company Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London NW1
1960s
card
overall: 243.5 x 184 mm

Advertisement promoting the level of technical skill that goes into manufacturing a Microlens corneal contact lens. Features a black and photographic illustration of the product on the end of a finger and a list of the instruments used in the production process: Curve generators, proof-plates, micrometers, radiuscope, diameter gauge, automatic polishing machine, microspherometer, radius slide rule, binocular magnifier, magnifiers, dial-thickness gauge, special diamond tools, focimeters and ultrasonic cleaning apparatus. Printed in black on one side only of a single sheet of white card.


2007.826

Gift of Cantor & Nissel Ltd, 2007


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