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Sun spectacles belonging to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
SPECTACLES
sunglasses
Theodore Hamblin Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
Early-Mid 20th c.
plastic

Spectacles. Dark brown mottled plastic (cellulose acetate) imitation tortoiseshell frame. Regular bridge. Metal-to-metal centre joints, vertically pinned at front, within protruding lugs and horizontally but widely pinned to sides. Slightly bowed straight sides with flattened tips. (Tip of left side broken off and missing). Oval eyerims glazed with light smoke-tinted glass sun lenses.


2014.180

Gift of HM The Queen, via the Royal Optician Mr Roger Pope, 2014



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