Artificial Eyes
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden box containing 50 glass eyes, with a “GUMBERT” inscription in the lid. According to an advertisement published in 1900, Gumbert was a trademark owned by R. Hoehn & Co. (I. Mayer & Co., proprietors). Established in New York ca. 1860, this firm later claimed to be the “Oldest and Largest Manufacturers and Importers of Artificial Eyes in America.” Most of their stock was manufactured in their factory in Europe, but “we have recently brought to this country some of our most skillful German workmen, and installed a plant where the eyes could be made under our personal supervision.”
label: Description
content: Ref: R. Hoehn & Co. ad in The Optical Journal 7 (1900): 683.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hyman J. Gardsbane, O.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0133.02
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0133.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0133
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Artificial Eyes
label: Object Name
content: eyes, artificial, set
label: Object Name
content: prosthesis
label: Other Terms
content: Artificial Eyes; Prostheses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, oak (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: textile, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3.6 cm x 33.5 cm x 17.6 cm; 1 7/16 in x 13 3/16 in x 6 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 13 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 3.81 cm x 33.3375 cm x 18.0975 cm