VICTORIAN OPTOMITREST SET (Optomitrest set)
1989/054/002
A wooden dark oak rectangular box. When opened, on the inside of the top lid is blue leather. On the bottom, there are rectangular slots for eye pieces. There are a total of 10; 8 are rows, 2 are columns. There are titles above these slots which include 'concave spherical', 'concave cylindrical', convex cylindrical', 'concave...
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Description
A wooden dark oak rectangular box. When opened, on the inside of the top lid is blue leather. On the bottom, there are rectangular slots for eye pieces. There are a total of 10; 8 are rows, 2 are columns. There are titles above these slots which include 'concave spherical', 'concave cylindrical', convex cylindrical', 'concave spherical'. There are numbers down the center, between two slots. For the 8 rows of slots, they are all mostly full of eye pieces.
This is a Victorian optomitrest set.
- Claudia Davies, Curating for Change Fellow at Black Country Living Museum