COPIES OF EARLY CATALOGUES & COLLECTIONS
Early Optical Catalogues
The Club is able to offer members the opportunity to purchase copies of antique commercial catalogues via digital download link: Click here for sample pages.
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
W A Jones Optical Co, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 1924
71 pages plus price list of frames, optical equipment, instruments and tools
A Selection of Modern Ophthalmological Instruments
51 pages covering instruments manufactured by members of the Association of Dispensing Opticians Limited. England 1933
Cost per catalogue is £7.50 (Club Members) or £10.00 (Non members): Supplied by email or a link for download
CLUB MEMBERS ONLY CAN NOW PURCHASE ALL the above catalogues, supplied as a link for digital download, along with numerous post 1950 catalogues , for only £30.00 – either via the Shop page or by email to: antiques@oaicc.com
Articles & Collections
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 via digital download link is £10.00
HOW TO PAY / ORDER?
Please send list of items required and payment in sterling to OAICC, 27 Orchard Avenue, Worthing, West Sussex. BN14 7PY, United Kingdom, or email antiques@oaicc.com