A cased optician’s trial lens set by Millikin & Lawley, with spherical, cylindrical, concave and convex lenses housed in a mahogany case with padded inside lid and dating from around 1910. The case is in very good original condition and includes 74 lenses in total, each marked by lens strength. Also included is the original lens holder with two lens slots on each side, a  system for adjusting the bridge width and a graduated scale underneath each lens holder. The makers name and address is on a very small plaque affixed inside the lid.
Millikin & Lawley were a prominent London retailer and maker of medical, optical and scientific instruments, active from the mid‑19th century into the mid‑20th century.​
The business grew out of John Millikin’s surgical cutlery shop founded in 1815 at 301 Strand; after his death, his widow Martha ran it until the 1850s, when pawnbroker William Lawley bought the firm and adopted the name Millikin & Lawley.​ The shop moved along the Strand several times (301 → 161 → 168 → 165 Strand) before a final move in the 1930s to Chandos Street, remaining active into the mid‑1900s.​
The case measures 22.5 x 22.5 x 6cm.
A really interesting and quirky collectable piece of medical history.