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Optician; The Hatton Press Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
1966-04-15
paper
overall: 244 mm x 185 mm
Special supplement issue of a professional journal, marking its 75th anniversary. Printed in partial colour on 32 pages, stapled, with mainly green front cover. Includes articles on The 'Optician' and the Birth of British Ophthalmics, Publicity for Ophthalmics (by Frank Piggott), professional aspiration (by Sam Black). Full-page advertising and congratulatory messages from The Hadley Company Ltd, Igard Z Lenses, Hecht, Pfeiffer & Co. Ltd (Viennaline frames), Obrig Laboratories (Great Britain) Ltd (New Blink Contact lens Wetting Solution), Levers Optical Co. Ltd (Lady Luck supra frame), Polaroid Sunglasses, Degenhardt (Celfa ladies frame), Birch-Stigmat Group/Birch Desgins, Anglo-American Optical Co (Eng.) Ltd (Whitney men's half-eye frame), Newbold & Bulford Ltd (Enbeeco binoculars and compasses), British Spectacle Frame Makers' Association, Zeiss Umbral Sunglasses, Holborn Optical Co Ltd (Promette ladies Regulation 12 frame), Vertex Optical Ltd (Martex semi-saddle library frame for men), The J. & H. Taylor Group (Nitsche & Gunther/Nigura frames), Peter Jones (Rodenstock frames), Ratti Industria Ottica Sap (Persol Meflecto), Rodenstock (test lens set), British American Optical Company Ltd (Lynette and Coppelia frames), H. Williamson Optical Co (1932) Ltd, UKO B&L, Merx Optical Company Ltd, Southdown Optical Co Ltd, E. Bittner Ltd (Tango frame), Empire Optical Works Ltd, R. Frohlich (Opture frames - Sylvia ladies frame), Essel (Dorine frame), Bier-Hamblin aids for the partially-sighted, J & R. Fleming, Raphale's (reproduction of an advertisement from the first edition, 16 April 1891), M. Wiseman & Company Ltd (Grant frame), Newbold & Company Ltd, Norvilles of Gloucester, London Optical Company Ltd, Alpha Lens Company Ltd, Willesden Optical Works Ltd (The XL ladies combination frame), Finn Brothers Optical Co Ltd (Piquant frame and Shirelle Regulation 12 frame), Paul Green Ltd (Quadrant frame), McKenzie & Black Ltd, UKO B&L (Zella frame), Alfred Mills (Opticians) Ltd, Paris Eyewear Ltd (new sunglass releases), Lessar Brothers Ltd (Lesbro products), NuSyte Ltd (CLU Mk IV modification unit), Combined Optical Industries Ltd (Parasolar sunlgasses and clip-overs), Willmotts Ltd, Autoflow Engineering Ltd (Glazomatic Twin Wheel Automatic Bevel Edger), Orma 1000 CR39 hard resin lenses, Trident Optical Company Ltd (Winton frame), East Yorkshire Optical Co (EYCO equipment), Manufacturing Optician International, Max Kochmann Ltd (Koluxe frame), Kelvin Lenses Ltd, Salvoc, Archer-Elliott Ltd. plus numerous smaller advertisements and classfied notices.
2020.127
Gift of Mrs Janet Birch, 2017