Ophthalmic Antiques (OA) – our Quarterly Journal

If you would like a single complimentary (free) copy of the Journal, please email antiques@oaicc.com giving your name and address and we will be happy to put a past edition in the post

The Club Journal was started in September 1982 as ‘The Bulletin’ by our late Founder Derek Davidson and consisted of six pages covering a variety of topics of interest. Derek continued as Editor with quarterly issues and increased the pages to eight and ‘The Bulletin’ became ‘The Newsletter’ with issue 11 in April 1985. Subsequently it was given the official title of “Ophthalmic Antiques”. Ronald MacGregor took over as Editor for the July 1990 issue and gradually increased the content until it reached the current 16 pages in 1997. Two volumes of ‘Extracts’ have been published, the first in 1986 covering the first ten issues and the second in 1996 covering the preceding ten years. With the April 2006 issue colour pictures were introduced for the front and back covers. An enlarged edition for July 2007 celebrated the Journal’s 100th issue and issue 112, in July 2010 with extra colour pages, commemorated the rediscovery of the Heymann Collection. Ronald retired at the end of 2009 after 19 years service when Tim Bowden, took over as Editor starting with issue 110 for January 2010. Our present Editor started with the January 2018 Issue number 142.

The Journal is now widely recognised as an authoritative source of ophthalmic and optical history and is used by researchers and often quoted in learned papers and articles. Valerie Mellor has spent a great deal of time over the past ten years producing an Index so that this enormous amount of information can be readily accessed. She has produced a series of Indices, which have been issued free to members. The main Index covers September 1982 to April 2011 and is available to download as a fully searchable pdf file by clicking here with the supplement covering July 2011 to April 2016 available here. Original printed editions of “Ophthalmic Antiques” copies can be purchased from the Club, please see under the Shop section of the website.

Early editions of the Journal can be viewed free on the Shop / Journal & Articles page

Members are encouraged to write articles or provide news for the Journal. The Editor, David Baker, works well in advance of the publication months of January, April, July and October and any entries must reach him well beforehand, his email address is: dh.baker@hotmail.co.uk

Alternatively, you can always contact us at antiques@oaicc.com