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D-spectacles & case
SPECTACLES
D-spectacles; spectacles case
Carpenter & Westley
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London
c.1840
tortoiseshell; silver; glass; leather; card
DBL: 26 mm; case: 126 mm x 42 mm; eye: 27 mm x 29 mm; side (extended): 184 mm

D-spectacles. Real tortoiseshell front and hinged side visors. Arched bridge. Silver centre joints on protruding shell lugs, vertically pinned at front. Silver turnpin sides, hallmarked. D-shaped eyes, glazed with green tinted lenses. Together with original black leather and card flap case, bearing supplier's stamp on inner flap.


2010.676

College Purchase, 2010



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