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SPECTACLES
driving spectacles; box
Nupro Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London
c.1952
plastic; metal; cardboard
overall (box): 26 mm x 139 mm x 61 mm
Night-driving spectacles (women's model). Light brown and yellow mottled plastic (imitation tortoiseshell) frame. Bowed bridge with integral plastic nose pads. Triple charnier high joints vertically pinned to front and horizontally pinned to sides. Reinforced drop-end sides. Upswept (cat's eye) eye rims, glazed with yellow-tinted plano lenses featuring a mirrored yellow sun shield in the upper region, inclined to the right. Includes a red and silver foil sticker on the left lens. Together with outer section of original supplier's cardboard box, printed in mainly red and yellow, featuring a black and white celebrity endorsement photo of Mr S. H. Allard, winner of the 1952 Monte Carlo Rally.
2022.499
Gift of Lisa Morgan in memory of Mr John Beddows, 2022