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Windsor Spectacles in war economy box
SPECTACLES
spectacles; spectacles case
Trent Optical Co. Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Nottinghamshire, Nottingham
1940s
rolled gold; xylonite; glass; cardboard
DBL: 22 mm; box: 19 mm x 136 mm x 61 mm; eye: 37 mm

Spectacles. Gold-filled frame. Grooved W-bridge. Centre joints. Cable curl sides. Round eyes with dark brown xylonite rim covers. Glazed with prescription lenses. Together with original red paper-covered soft-hinged cardboard box featuring inner label apologising for the inability to supply steel cases due to government restrictions on the supply of materials.


2010.716

Gift of Dollond & Aitchison Group, 2010



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