Objects
Wig spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Carpenter & Westley
Europe: United Kingdom, England
c.1840
real tortoiseshell; metal; glass
DBL: 28 mm; eye: 23 mm x 30 mm; overall front: 110 mm; side: 110 mm
2019.949
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Carpenter & Westley
Europe: United Kingdom, England
c.1840
real tortoiseshell; metal; glass
DBL: 28 mm; eye: 23 mm x 30 mm; overall front: 110 mm; side: 110 mm
Spectacles. Dark brown and yellow mottled real tortoiseshell frame. Bowed arch bridge with flat-bottomed piers. Horizontal lugs supporting metal-to-metal centre joints, horizontally pinned to both front and side. Short, tapering, straight sides and roughened texture on the inner surface at ends. Oval eye rims, glazed with glass prescription lenses.
2019.949
Gift of Mr Philip Heal FCOptom, 2019