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Test Types Approved by the Faculty of Ophthalmologists
TEST CHARTS
near vision test
Rayner
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, W1
Mid 20th c.
paper; cardboard; cloth
overall: 262 mm x 156 mm

Reading test types consisting of two printed cards stuck permanently within a green cloth-covered cardboard folder. Printed surface features ten paragraphs of graduated text corresponding to sizes N.5. to N.24 ascending, plus a a newspaper column of fund prices, a Snellen conversion chart and a musical stave. The text passages are from the essay 'Walks in the Country' from 'Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery' by Mary Russell Mitford (c.1824).


2012.330

Gift of Glasgow Caledonian University, 2012



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