Title

Making coloured glass eyeballs, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Making coloured glass eyeballs, c1914-c1918. Master craftsmen use cut glass and enamel to make glass eyes for soldiers who lost their eyes in the First World War. A bulb of glass is blown and colour applied (top left); the eyes are baked and the colours set (top right); the eyeball is cut to fit (bottom left); the finished article is carefully polished (bottom right).
Historica Graphica Collection

Date

1923

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historica Graphica Collection

Reference

HRM19D79_421

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,1Mb (1,7Mb) / 11,1in x 14,1in / 3316 x 4231 (300dpi)

Keywords

glass hand industry manufacturing body trade British war process century Britain first world war concept B&W MONOCHROME glass eye World War I WWI black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century 1st World War the body WW1 photograph Unknown Historica Graphica Collection artificial eye photograph