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British Optical Association Museum
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leaflet
College of Optometrists
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, WC2
2012
paper
overall: 209 mm x 100 mm

Publicity leaflet for the BOA Museum. DL format, printed in full colour on six sides, folded. Front cover shows a pair of tortoiseshell spectacles with sinuous sides and a young man holding an anatomical model of the eye. The inner pages include a lorgnette, leather spectacles, vintage fashion frame with inset stones, Hamblin contact lenses, chicken 'pecktacles', a young woman holding a pair of opera glasses on a handle, a Dollond telescope, an automatic refracting device, a model of a diseased eye and an ivory anatomical model. Back page features a young man with a spectacle-shaped optician's sign.


2012.746

College commission 2011



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