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Spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
c.1870
steel; glass
DBL: 23 mm; eye: 28 mm x 37 mm

Spectacles. Handmade steel frame with knocked-on arch bridge. Small, split centre joints, leading to very thin wire curl sides, thickening towards the end where they morph into an unusual design of curl spring with rounded end stumps. Oval eye rims, glazed with concave glass prescription lenses.


2019.554

Gift of Mr Peter Booth FCOptom, 2018



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