Object of the Month

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Object of the Month

Each month the MusEYEum focuses in on a different object from the wide-ranging BOA collections.

This part of the website, which has proved one of our most popular, is normally updated around the middle of each month.

April 2008 - The IOOL

From whence the World Council of Optometry came

March 2008 - Polish Health Service Spectacles

The historic sights of Krakow

February 2008 - Polarographic Cell

Measuring the permeability of breathable lenses

January 2008 - The unintended memorial

A stamp recalling Gandhi's assassination

December 2007 - Christmas past...Christmas present

Give someone an eye test

November 2007 - A book to bring tears to your eyes

Eye surgery in 1762

October 2007 - Give that man a medal

The end of the Peer

September 2007 - A Jug Eyed Character

A Dickensian delight

August 2007 - Instructions for the Deaf

Read very carefully - We'll write the questions down

July 2007 - I See A Nice Little Earner

Maximise your wages: Spend them on new Glasses

June 2007 - We wouldn't make this up

Drop-down glasses for painted ladies

May 2007 - The Case of the Unhygienic Contact Lens

Don't copy our historic forebears

April 2007 Specs the Pocket Dragon

He saw what he wished

March 2007 - A Spectacle Maker with Taste

He enjoyed a good lark

February 2007 - Topographic Modelling System

Studying ocular anatomy by computer

January 2007 - A Spectacle of Spectacles

A wide range of optical devices in just one print

December 2006 - Our Christmas Present

It won't be so lonely this Christmas

November 2006 - Fan-tastic Craftsmanship

Peeping from behind a fan...or through it

October 2006 - This Man is Short-Sided

Mr Thompson's spectacles don't go very far

September 2006 - Dr Dujardin's Luminous Spectacles

Light the way before you with these wacky spectacles

August 2006 - A Sign of the Times

When optometrists and medical men did not see eye to eye

July 2006 - One Week's Holiday Twice Yearly

Could you train on two shillings and sixpence a week?

June 2006 - Scotland World Cup Sunvisor

They had their eyes on the cup that year

May 2006 - Gold spectacles with spoked terminals

They rarely made them like this!

April 2006 - Look Out & Watch Out

This exquisite lorgnette combines two functions of the jeweller-optician's art

March 2006 - Freeman Binocular Bi-chromatic Test

Opticians used this test to run rings round their competitors

February 2006 - Die Gelehrten auf Reisen (The Scholars on their Travels)

These men don't look so clever as they think

January 2006 - 1930s Driving Spectacles

You drive me crazy!

December 2005 - Whalebone Spectacles

Have a whale of a time this Christmas!

November 2005 - Count Bruhl's Tailor

Meet the goat who had a long wait to get his glasses back