Trial Set of Lenses
name: label: maker
content: Nachet et Fils
notes: label: Description
content: One inscription in the lid of this box of lenses reads “NACHET & FILS / 17 RUE ST. SEVERIN, 17 / PARIS.” Another reads “J. REYNDERS & CO. / Surgical & Orthopediactrical / Instruments / 303 Fourth Ave. / NEW YORK.” Nachet & Fils was a major optical house in Paris that began in business, as such, around 1862. John Reynders & Co. was a surgical and optical supply house in New York that began in business in 1870.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Reynders & Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price List</i> (New York, 1889).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. J. Staiman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07032
label: catalog number
content: M-07032
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Trial, Lens
label: Object Name
content: spectacles, trial set
label: Object Name
content: lens, trial kit
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Trial, Lens; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 19 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 7.9375 cm x 48.895 cm x 31.75 cm