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Ophthalmic Instruments & Apparatus
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
catalogue
Curry & Paxton Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London W1
1920s
paper; card; metal
overall: 245 mm x 184 mm

Catalogue for a manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments. Portrait format, printed in black and white on 72 pages, spiral bound, with green card end covers. Illustrated with product drawings and photographs. Includes, on the frontispiece, a picture of Head Office in Great Portland Street and a list of nine regional branches. Inner pages include pictures of the new showrooms in Great Portland St (1922) and Wigmore St, factory images of spherical lens grinding, cylindrical lens grinding, lens marking, lens edging, final checking, verification, tortoiseshell working and instrument making. Featured products: ophthalmoscopes, diagnostic sets, retinoscopes, condensing lenses, trial frames, trial cases, test charts, ophthalmic brackets, perimeters, Cargill Self-registering perimeter, instrument tables, projection lamps, orthoptic instruments (Synoptiscope, New Synoptiscope, amblyoscope, School stereoscope, squint training pictures), accessories (Blair corneal microscope, cross cylinders, Maddox Multiple Rods, focus lamps, Curpax Reading Glass, binocular magnifier, loupes, prismatic binocular loupe, electric eye magnet, Ishihara colour test, Bjerrum Screen, Traquair targets, Maddox Wing test, Stereopsis pendulum, chairs), Zeiss Nordensen Camera, Zeiss Vertex Refrctionometer [focimeter], Zeiss Comberg Slit Lamp, Ross Epidiascope.


2017.172

Gift of Mr Brian Mitchell, 2010



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