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Demonstration (?) spectacle frame
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
Early-mid 20th c.
tortoiseshell; rolled gold
left eye: 41 mm; right eye: 45 mm

Spectacles. Light brown real tortoiseshell front with slightly bowed regular bridge. Rolled gold centre joints, vertically pinned to front, leading to thin gold-filled wire curl sides with end stumps. Differing eyerim shapes, the left eye round and the right eye more of a PRO shape, possibly intentionally different to demonstrate choice of appearance, unglazed.


2018.2

Gift of Mr Nigel Wingate FCOptom, 2017



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