Opticians
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 60 items relating to opticians in Glasgow which date from the early 19th century to the 1950s. This collection principally comprises spectacles and cases. Other items include an optician's sight-testing outfit of lenses mounted in tortoiseshell frames, a display cabinet, and a shop sign. A set of magic lantern moving slides and a presentation box for a medal show that opticians often sold or made other items as well as spectacles. Glasgow opticians represented in this collection include DJ Alexander, Taylor's Opticians, A Davison, J Lizars Ltd Opticians, Chalmers Opticians, JH Graham, F Farquhar, Wm Blackadder, W SHEEW Opticians, JL McInnes and Co, LH Verity, Wm Robertson and Son, Scot and Co, JQ Pringle and T Raird and Son.
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