Seal matrix and patent document within a hinged, rectangular wooden box. The document is a patent awarded to John Henry Dallmeyer, optician and is dated October 1864. The patent is comprised of two large sheets attached by a small rope to a large circular seal matrix. The patent reads, “John Henry Dallmeyer of 19 Bloomsbury Street in the County of Middlesex Optician hath by his petition humbly represented unto us that he is in the possession of an invention for improvements in the construction of lenses which improvements are especially applicable to lenses for photographic purposes”. The seal matrix is within a circular, metal tin, yellow in colour with the image of Queen Victoria upon her throne on the obverse and Queen Victoria upon horseback on the reverse. The wooden box is green in colour with “Her Majesty’s Patent” upon the lid.
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