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trial case
TRIAL CASES, FRAMES AND REFRACTOR HEADS
trial case
Europe: United Kingdom
20th c.
wood; leatherette; metal; glass
overall: 355 x 315 x 85 mm

Trial case. Black leatherette on wood with carrying handle. Two white metal clasps and lockable sliding centre clasp. Reinforced corners. Blue velvet lining in lid. Purple lining in base with removable wooden (oak?) tray. Tray features hinged stand for fixing in reclined position. 140 lenses in metal rims with handles: 46 pairs of sphero-concave and sphero-convex lenses in white metal rims with loop handles, 24 pairs of cylindrical concave and convex lenses in yellow metal rims with round handles. Four prisms. Accessories with white metal rims: Maddox rod, blue filter, stenopaeic slit, occluder, pinhole. Two hand retinoscopes, one with a cracked mirror, the other tarnished.


2001.322

Gift of Arthur C. Mawson in memory of H.P. Southcott, 2001


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