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Sample 'Algha' NHS 211 spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
M. Wiseman & Company Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London
1948-1960
metal; xylonite; cardboard
DBL: 23 mm; PD: 62 mm; box: 31 mm x 144 mm x 68 mm; eye: 39 mm

Sample NHS spectacle frame. White metal frame. Grooved W-bridge. Centre joints. Flat-section curl sides. Round eye rims with dark brown xylonite rim covers, unglazed. Attached to a strung paper identity tag. Together with an historic cardboard box with separate lid, marked with NHS code and dates of manufacture.


2018.356

Gift of Mr Rian Love/OATS/City University, 2015



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