Description

DRAMATIC OPTOMETRIST’S SIGN, French, c. early 20th c., the red grain-painted wood frame measuring 10-3/4″ x 14-3/4″ (27 x 37 cm), the glass panel backed with reflective material and reverse-painted or -printed in color, showing fitted eyeglasses, a cross-section of the eye, and the message “Execution Rapide des Ordonnances de M’rs. les Oculistes”. It is signed in the corner, for the patented process “Luicolor B’te. S.G.D.G., 339 rue des Pyrenees, Paris.” To the reverse is a hinged card support, as though to stand the sign in a window display. The reflective striations of the background give the sign a dramatic quality as one walks by. Condition is fine throughout.