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Examples of 'squeezed' glass contact lenses
CONTACT LENSES AND ACCESSORIES
contact lens; contact lens (part-made)
Europe: United Kingdom
Mid 20th c.
glass; plastic; cardboard
case: 35 mm

Two examples of 'squeezed' glass sceral contact lenses (made by squeezing molten glass between two dies), one finished but cracked (together with a white plastic two-part cylindrical lens case), the other untrimmed. Contained in a thick cardboard postage box with separate lid, bearing a Nissel-branded label, postmarked 20 October 1983, but contents may be much earlier.


2021.142

Transferred from the former Museum and Library of Optometry, Aston University / Gift of the family of the late Anthony G. Sabell FCOptom, 2016



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