Pilkington Barnes-Hind CTL Custom Eyes 0.5 Tinted Soft Contact Lenses
 Catalogue Number: 2593 Pilkington Barnes-Hind CTL Custom Eyes 0.5 Tinted Soft Contact Lenses Category: Spectacles and lenses Sub-Category: Contact lenses and accessories Corporation: Pilkington Barnes-Hind Ltd Year Of Publication/Manufacture: c 1996 Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Sunnyvale, California, USA. Publisher/Manufacturer: Pilkington Barnes-Hind Description Of Item: Three vials 52m high of diameter 22 mm with unopened seals with plastic tops each containing one tinted soft contact lens. Colours are green, blue and aqua. Each vial is labelled CTL Custom Eyes 0.5 with lens parameters : Base curves 8.4, 8.7 and 9.0 mm and Colour-Clear . Expiry dates 05 to 08 1999. Historical Significance: CTL was a post-manufacturing tinting process for soft contact lenses used by Pilkington Barnes-Hind. Lenses were produced clear,as the labels suggest, and then tinted to order. These lenses were a trial set provided to the practitioner to show the tints available. How Acquired: Donated by Colin Bates Date Acquired: 16/01/2013 Condition: Good Location: Archive Office. Cabinet One Drawer 16 |