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sunglasses
Europe: France
1950s-1960s
plastic; metal
Ladies fashion sunglasses. Semi-transparent grey plastic frame. Narrow bowed bridge with integral pads attached to inner rims. Triple charnier (five barrel) high joints vertically pinned to front and horizontally pinned to sides. Reinforced straight sides with fenstrated bird-shaped decorative flourish part way along. Upswept eye rims also terminating in upper corners with fenestrated bird-shaped decoration, bith outer rims and sides studded with decorative metal discs in gold, bronze, green and blue. Grey-tinted sun lenses.
2021.279
Gift of Miss Laura Devine in memory of her brother Henry Devine, 2021