Lens Trial Set
Lens Trial Set
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- Description
- One inscription in the lid of this box of lenses reads “NACHET & FILS / 17 RUE ST. SEVERIN, 17 / PARIS.” Another reads “J. REYNDERS & CO. / Surgical & Orthopediactrical / Instruments / 303 Fourth Ave. / NEW YORK.” Nachet & Fils was a major optical house in Paris that began in business, as such, around 1862. John Reynders & Co. was a surgical and optical supply house in New York that began in business in 1870.
- Ref: John Reynders & Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price List (New York, 1889).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Kit, Trial, Lens
- spectacles, trial set
- lens, trial kit
- Other Terms
- Kit, Trial, Lens; Medicine
- maker
- Nachet et Fils
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/8 in x 19 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 7.9375 cm x 48.895 cm x 31.75 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-07032
- catalog number
- M-07032
- accession number
- 216897
- Credit Line
- Dr. J. Staiman
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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