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Wig spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
19th c.
real tortoiseshell; metal; glass
DBL: 25 mm; eye: 24 mm x 31 mm; side: 92 mm

Spectacles. Dark brown real tortoiseshell frame. Very slightly bowed arch bridge. Horizontal lugs supporting metal-to-metal centre joints, horizontally pinned to both front and side. Short, tapering, straight sides with ever so slightly flared terminals, and roughened texture on the inner surface at ends. Oval eye rims, glazed with glass prescription lenses.


2019.552

Gift of Mr Peter Booth FCOptom, 2018



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