Items Wanted
This is a facility solely for the convenience of members only. Please note that the Club accepts no responsibility for any items offered by individual members and cannot guarantee the accuracy of any given descriptions.
The Club will provide the contact but the responsibility for any transaction rests entirely with the members involved. If you have any Wants or Items For Sale please email this website at antiques@oaicc.com or send written details to the Chairman.
Listings will be posted for six months. Further extensions must be requested within two weeks of the expiration date.
Members Searching for Items
If you have any of the following, please email antiques@oaicc.com
Claude Lorraine Black Mirror:
See OA edition 129 (October 2014) for more details
A Member is looking for information on the 1960s American Optical Space Eikonometer –
how to care for and preserve the machine, a reasonable value for insurance purposes, if there is anyone alive in the world today with the knowledge and tools to service it…or maybe a manual – and would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows of any more recent equipment.
Working Prismatic Pseudoscope wanted for purchase:
Looking for Mauchline Ware Spectacles case, Chatelaine style if possible. If you feel you can help a fellow Club Member out, please email antiques@oaicc.com
Ref KA
Do you have a spare copy of
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Corson’s Fashions in Eyeglasses first edition and/orCopy obtained -
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Spectacles Frames & their Dispensing by Henri Obstfeld Still wanted
Club Member and Framemaker wanting to expand his knowledge trying to find darkshell slabs, perhaps with a few highlights, to make a frame and sides.
Ideally looking for slabs for front and sides but could work from shell plates, would be happy to buy.
Please email antiques@oaicc.com
Also would like to purchase a Clavulus staking tool, preferably in blue colour if possible
Looking for replacement
persex frame carrier inserts for the
Senior Frame Bar
produced by London Williamson
Also wanted please – infra red Frame Heater