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shooting spectacles
SPECTACLES
shooting spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1900
steel
overall: 125 x 34 mm

Shooting spectacles. Blued steel frame. Bowed X-bridge. Centre joints. Bowed, straight sides with pear-shaped loop ends. Round eyes. Left eye features a plano light blue/smoke-tinted lens. Right eye features stenopaeic shooting disc comprising a main disc with a decentred 3mm aperture, masked from behind by an adjustable revolving auxiliary disc bearing four different smaller apertures.


1999.5090

Gift of Professor W. J. B. Riddell, 1970



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