EARLY CATALOGUES
Early Optical Catalogues on Disc

Thanks to the enterprise and hard-work of our Vice-Chairman John and the generous free supply of original documents from Willem Banninga, the Club is able to offer members the opportunity to purchase copies of antique commercial catalogues on disc:

Groos, Ltd. Manufacturing and Export Opticians, established 1830, London.
Dating to 1911, containing over 600 pages with a few in full colour. Covering frames, folders, cases, instruments, opera glasses, telescopes, barometers and much more... Includes trade prices.
This is a very comprehensive, and much sought after catalogue.

Nitsche & Gunther,    Rathenow, Deutschland.     1912 catalogue.
Over 80 highly illustrated pages. Spectacles, folders, frame display material, lorgnettes, thermometers and more... Complete with trade prices
Please note: This catalogue is in German but is full of many wonderful illustrations.

D. V. Brown    Wholesale & Manufacturing Optician, Philadelphia, USA.    1910 catalogue.
170+ illustrated pages of optical goods, instruments, trial cases, machinery and accessories. Helpful section identifying numerous eyeglass guard types. Also with trade prices.
Very useful and detailed catalogue covering the American Optical Industry

Wm Gowlland, Ltd., Morland Road, Croydon, England,
Running to over 150 pages, it contains a fascinating variety of pictures complete with descriptions and prices of many varieties of ophthalmic goods.
Allied more with instrumentation than with spectacles it covers – ophthalmoscopes – corneal microscopes – perimeters – optometers – trial frames – lamps – laryngoscopes – instrument tables – trial sets
and much more

J&H Taylor (London) Ltd., Hatton Gardens, London c1910
(Pdf file only, no jpegs,) 84+ pages, highly illustrated, well known British Manufacturer and supplier of spectacles, equipment, magnifiers, barometers, field glasses and telescopes

Charpentier & Cia, Buenos Aires. Early 1900s.
Please note: Text in Spanish, very hard to find, numerous pictures, complete with prices. Over 170 pages.


Cost per disc is £7.50 (Club Members) or £10.00 (Non members) with post and packing charge of £2.00 for UK & EU, and £2.75 for the rest of world per order, no matter how many discs ordered.

*** New titles will be added periodically, so please check back regularly. ***


Madame Alfred Heymann Commemorative Disc:
Madame Alfred Heymann published the rare book "Lunettes et Lorgnettes de Jadis" in 1911 giving details of her fabulous collection. Unfortunately, after her death in 1925, the collection was dispersed and all but disappeared. Members of the Ophthalmic Antiques International Collectors' Club, led by Dr. David Fleishman, recently succeeded in locating a large part of the collection.
The OAICC has since produced this Commemorative Disc containing over 300 images of many of the spectacles and cases held by the Chateau Ecouen.
The cost of the Madame Heymann Commemorative disc is £10 with postage as for the catalogue discs.


HOW TO PAY / ORDER?
Please send list of items required and payment in £ sterling to OAICC, 9 Liverpool Terrace, Worthing, West Sussex. BN11 1TA. United Kingdom.
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