ASSORTED MIDWESTERN OPTOMETRIST ADVERTISING POCKET MIRRORS / ARTICLES, LOT OF TEN, round tin/metal bodies housing glass-pane mirrors on one side except for one button and one Dayton, Ohio example instead housing a seemingly functional blued-steel-arrow compass, each with celluloid backings lithographed with advertising for opticians, including a Bainbridge and a Crawfordsville, Indiana, a St. Charles, Missouri, a Zumbrota, Minnesota, a Morgantown, West Virginia, and Ohio examples including Cleveland, Toledo, and Dayton. Late 19th/early 20th century. 2 1/2" DOA.

From the private collection of John and Val Tull, York, PA.

Mostly very good to excellent condition, most with only light or moderate corrosion to metals and some staining or losses to under-glass mirror surfaces except Toledo example heavily rusted to frame and handle; most advertising in excellent shape except for some losses to paper of Bainbridge piece, the Missouri example lightly discolored with a somewhat cracked/peeling surface, and WV example with heavily cracking surface.