Catalogue Number: 3905 Plastic Wallet containing Lens Cleaning Cloth and Patient Certificate of Authenticity Category: Memorabilia and ephemera Sub-Category: Advertising, trade and products Corporation: Essilor Year Of Publication/Manufacture: C 2017 Time Period: 21st C Publisher/Manufacturer: Essilor Description Of Item: Clear plastic wallet 100 mm x 65 mm enclosing a white micro fibre cleaning cloth 165 mm x 165 mm with multicoloured image and description the properties of the Crizal coating and an Essilor logo and a plastic card 85 mm x 55 mm with Certificate of Authenticity, properties of the Crizal coating and promotion of the Cancer Council imprinted. Historical Significance: A promotional cleaning cloth provided by the manufacturer to be given to the purchaser of Essilor Crizal lenses.Essilor was formed in 1972 as a merger between Essel and Silor, both French companies. Essel began in Paris in 1849 as a group of spectacle assembly workshops. It added frame manufacture to its lens making activities inventing the Nylor method of lens retention. It invented the first progressive lens Varilux in 1959. Silor another optical group invented a lightweight lens in 1959, Orma 1000. Essilor merged with LuxOttica in 2018. How Acquired: Donated by ACO Optical Dispensing Laboratory via David Leeming Date Acquired: 08/2019 Condition: Very Good |