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[David Whitehouse]: When the curators in natural history museums displayed the mounted skins
of elephants, lions and tigers, gorillas, one of the things they needed to do was to
substitute the eyes, and enter Mr. and Mr. Blashka, because one of their sidelines was
to produce glass eyes. You can see four of them in the case here. And they made eyes
in three different sizes: they made eyes for human use, they made rather larger eyes for
relatively large animal specimens, and then they made very large eyes for the largest
of the world’s mammals.