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advertisement; price list
Crook, George
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire, Southport
Post 1901
paper
overall: 156 x 125 mm
Small booklet printed in black on 16 pages with orange soft covers. Includes hints on preservation of good, bad or indifferent eyesight, remarks on the Board of Education circular to Managers and Teachers of Elementary Schools of October 1901, an advertisement for the spectacle-fitting and private sight-testing room, promotion of speciality dealing in Canadian Folders and Spiral Rigid pince-nez, plus illustrated price list for eyeglass chains, spectacles, pince-nez, lenses (inc. Brazilian pebbles), lorgnettes (in real or imitation tortoiseshell), eye protectors ('invaluable to motor car riders'), reading glasses, pocket magnifiers, microscopes and microscopic sundries, field and opera glasses, telescopes, chatelaines etc. Practice stamp of Frederick Young on front cover together with a line drawing of a bearded Edwardian gentleman wearing pince-nez with a cord.
2000.304/78
Gift of Joan Young, 2000