Relegated to an obscurity unilluminated by the usual sources, the French manufacturer F. Faliez was active from approximately 1912 until at least the late 1940s, with factories and offices based in the village of Aufreville-Brasseuil in Mantes, fifty kilometres west of Paris in the Seine-et-Oise district – it’s distinctive ‘Ft PARIS’ branding a somewhat elastic …
Almost a century and a half of optical engineering: from taking lenses to sunglasses; from Rodenstock to Linos to Qioptiq to Excelitas. Rodenstock lenses and lens cells can be dated as follows: 50 000 1910 200 000 1920 400 000 1930 700 000 1935 900 000 1938 950 000 1940 2 000 000 1945 2 …
Based in Görlitz, a designation that often appears on their lenses, the “Optisch-Mechanische Industrie-Anstalt Hugo Meyer & Co.” was founded in 1896 by the optician Hugo Meyer and the merchant Heinrich Schätze. The maker, in co-operation with Paul Rudolph, was an early pioneer (from 1918) of Plasmat lens manufacture, and rapidly expanded between 1920-1942, largely …