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SPECTACLES
spectacles
British American Optical Company Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
1950s
rolled gold; plastic; glass
Ladies spectacles. Gold-filled combination frame with decorative pad bridge and rims set fully into green and crystal laminate plastic hoods with lugs into which are attached triple charnier high joints, separate from the rims, vertically pinned to the front and horizontally pinned to the sides, with decorative pin covers to front and plainer drop-shaped covers to sides. Transparent pink plastic nose pads. Reinforced green and crystal laminate plastic drop-end sides. Upswept 'cat's eye' eye rims, glazed with prescription lenses.
2021.734
Gift of Miss Laura Devine in memory of her brother Henry Devine, 2021