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The Ocular Developer - Home Model (Model A)
ORTHOPTIC INSTRUMENTS
eye trainer
The Ocular Apparatus Company
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Birmingham 2
1935
metal; (case) wood; paper; velvet
overall (case): 115 mm x 520 mm x 366 mm

Home training device comprising shiny white metal 19-inch binocular arm with fluted handle grip and marked scale, face fitment in similar metal with bowed head rest, marked with seven inch scale on the upright, black-painted traveller bracket, steel adaptor with fluted end knobs, white-painted focal disk on steel square-sectioned stem, white-painted central fixator on screw-arm fixed to steel square-sectioned stem, black metal sight testing disc marked with concentric rings (housed inside case lid), white-painted metal spherical exerciser with black-painted dependent arm. Contained with a rexine-covered wooden case with hinged lid, two metal clasps (one missing) and lined in black velvet.

2012.326

Gift of Glasgow Caledonian University, 2012