MusEYEum Online Catalogue

Wellsworth Frames, Mountings and Lenses (Reproduction)
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catalogue
American Optical Company
North America: USA, Massachusetts, Southbridge
2012
paper; plastic
overall: 280 mm x 222 mm

Modern facsimile edition of an AO Co illustrated catalogue (1926). Printed in black and white (plus a colour cover) on white paper, spiral bound. 167 pages plus reproduction of end papers. Includes photographs of Wellsworth factories in Southbridge MA (stamped Feb 24 1926), Worcester MA, Nicolet PQ, Belleville ONT and Cambridge MA, terms and definitions, list of branches, dimensions of saddle bridges, trade marks, gold frames, seals and mountings, 'Radio' spectacles, Wando Bridge Spectacles, Library Spectacles, gold eyeglasses, fronts, materials, onepiece eyeglasses, dress eyeglasses, Oxfords, lorgnettes, Oxford ribbons and eyeglass chains, eyeglass holders, earloop chains, hairpin chains, Zylonite frames, temples and fitting sets, Windsor spectacles (with cylinder, crest or pad bridge), Fits-U Eyeglasses and parts, gold-filled frames, mountings and materials, white metal spectacle and eye glass frames, mountings and materials (including Alumnico and Alumnica), Wellsworth lenses (including Tillyer lenses, Kryptok blanks, an explanation of effective power and vertex refraction, Centex lenses (meniscus, toric, flat and sphero-cylindrical, double and periscopic, plano, coquille and mi-coquille) Cruxite lenses, Noviol glass, Centex Crookes glass, Ultex one piece bifocals, Ultex trifocal, Monaxial lenses, Krytok bifocals, 'Forty-Five' bifocal blanks, Centex Cement wafers and bifocals, Centex prisms, Cataract lens blanks, moulded blanks, Centex semi-finished flat and meniscus lenses, index.

2012.125

College Purchase, 2012