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The bigger the lens, the greater the need...for Orthogon
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journal; advertisement
UK Optical Bausch & Lomb Ltd; Optician; The Hatton Press Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
1959-07-17
paper
overall: 245 mm x 370 mm

Advertisement from an issue of a professional journal. Printed in black and white on a double-page spread comprising adverts pp.x-xi. Illustrated with three close-up photographs of the same man's face but overlaid with a shape indicating the size and shape of historic spectacle lenses from 1850, 1930 and 1959, promoting the 'Orthogon' lens shape offering greater marginal correction, 'corrected to the very edge'.


2020.177/12

Gift of Mrs Janet Birch, 2017



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