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'Swans' spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Anglo American Optical Company
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, NW1
1970s
plastic; metal

Novelty spectacles. White plastic frame with raised upper portion to represent two swans necks and heads with inlaid red beaks. Regular bridge. Embedded double charnier high joints. Drop-end sides. Upswept outer eye shape with feathered outer rims, glazed to a squashed oval aperture with prescription lenses featuring a graduated blue tint with wave pattern to suggest the waterline.


2022.505

Bequest of Beverly Padway, 2022



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