Artificial Eyes
Artificial Eyes
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- Description
- Wooden box containing 50 glass eyes, with a “GUMBERT” inscription in the lid. According to an advertisement published in 1900, Gumbert was a trademark owned by R. Hoehn & Co. (I. Mayer & Co., proprietors). Established in New York ca. 1860, this firm was the “Oldest and Largest Manufacturers and Importers of Artificial Eyes in America.” Most of their stock was manufactured in their factory in Europe, but “we have recently brought to this country some of our most skillful German workmen, and installed a plant where the eyes could be made under our personal supervision.”
- Ref: R. Hoehn & Co. ad in The Optical Journal 7 (1900): 683.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Artificial Eyes
- eyes, artificial, set
- prosthesis
- Other Terms
- Artificial Eyes; Prostheses
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- wood, oak (overall material)
- textile, velvet (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- gold (overall color)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 3.6 cm x 33.5 cm x 17.6 cm; 1 7/16 in x 13 3/16 in x 6 15/16 in
- overall: 1 1/2 in x 13 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 3.81 cm x 33.3375 cm x 18.0975 cm
- ID Number
- 1994.0133.02
- catalog number
- 1994.0133.02
- accession number
- 1994.0133
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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