Blaschka Eyes

Listen as former curator David Whitehouse describes these glass eyeballs made by the Blaschkas. When the curators of natural history museums displayed the mounted skins of elephants, lions, tigers and gorillas, they substituted the animals’ real eyes with glass eyes made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, such as the ones on display in the case shown here. The Blaschkas also supplied larger eyes for some of the world’s largest mammal specimens. In addition, they made glass prosthetic eyes for living humans.
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