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Place of origin
Date

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

"Fold up" stereoscopic viewer housing a magnifying lens and stereoscopic lenses

1930-1970

An achromatic triplet hand-lens (x10) in swing-out nickel plated mount and leather case

Selenium glass signal lens

Lens, blue tinted, D-shaped, English, 1870-1920

1870-1920

Two green lenses set in a wooden holder

Eight clear glass lenses

1880-1950

14 lenses

1801-1930

3 circular Splintanil lenses

1920-1960

Lens, glass, roughly oval

1880-1950

Four lenses

1880-1950

Lens, roughly circular

1880-1950

Pair of glass lenses

1910-1950

Lens, glass, finger tip shaped

1880-1950

Lens, glass, thumb tip shaped

1880-1950

Pair of lenses

1880-1950

Lens, finger tip shape incomplete

1880-1950

Watson close-up lens

2a. Patent portrait lens front crown

Photo lens

Photo lens

Photo lens

Photo lens

Photo lens

Photo lens Ross patent airo

"Monarch" stand magnifier with 153x104mm (aspheric) acrylic lens and ivory-coloured supports

1950-1959

Two "Franklin Split Bifocal" lenses: (1) Oval

Photo lens

Cylindrical concave lens, focal length about 75mm

1900-1980

Cylindrical bi-concave lens

1900-1983

Cylindrical plano-convex lens

1900-1983

Aspheric lens used for slide projectors

1980

Curved sheet of translucent plastic with rivetted lens

Set of 22 trial lenses in case

1910

Burning-lens, mounted at end of a cylindrical box (length 2 ins) of brass silvered

Lenses illustrating manufacture of Dallmeyer Stigmatic F/6 lens

Lenses illustrating manufacture of Dallmeyer Stigmatic F/6 lens

Pair of safety goggle lenses, with case

Stanhope lens of greenish glass

Thallium bromo-iodide lens, one of ten, c. 1960

1955-1965

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle

1680-1700

Reading lens in wooden frame and handle

1650

Germanium lens

1980-1986

Block of lenses (4) on iron polishing tool

1909

Thallium bromo-iodide lens, one of ten, c. 1960

1955-1965

Lens type PS 0120001 polished and anti-reflection coated by Barr and Stroud Ltd.

1986

Reading lens in leather mount, 1701-1730

1701-1720

Stanhope lens

1829-1845

Optician's trial set of lenses