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Telescopic Spectacles (Leaflet Opto 3)
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leaflet
Carl Zeiss (Jena)
Europe: Germany, Thüringen, Jena
1922
paper
overall: 226 mm x 161 mm

Leaflet promoting telescopic spectacles for weak-sighted and extremely short-sighted eyes (Distal Spectacles). A5 portrait format printed in black and yellow onfour sides of white paper, folded. English-language text. Illustrated by drawings of the product, including the monocular and binocular telescopic lorgnette (Zeiss catalogue numbers 511, 514, 7151 and 7150) and a photograph of a man using them to read from a table lectern.


2021.712

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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