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BOAF Museum
PHOTOGRAPHS
photographic slide
Pickwell, L. D.
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, SW5
c.1981-1986
plastic; film
each slide: 50 mm x 50 mm

Set of colour photographic slides showing items from the collection of the British Optical Association Foundation Museum. 20 examples mounted in black and white plastic. Contained in a yellow plastic Kodak Slide Box with separate clear plastic lid. Featured museum objects: wig spectacles, Italian spectacles., tortoiseshell spectacles with 'Japanese' ends (padded drop-loop), spyglasses, leather nose spectacles, horn and steel nose spectacles, horn and steel spectacles, quizzing glass with vinaigrette, Chinese rimless glasses with ear cords, scissor spectacles, folding eyeglasses, spring lorgnette, folding lorgnette, folding double lorgnette, carved tortoiseshell lorgnettes.


2022.136

Gift of Professor David Pickwell, 1986



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