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Patent double spectacles with margins
SPECTACLES
silver spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London
1820
silver
eye width: 29 mm; lens: 19 x 25 mm; PD: 49 mm; DBL: 24 mm; length of side: 99 mm

Spectacles. Silver frame. Hallmarked on bridge. Arch bridge. Split centre joints. Slightly bowed tapering straight sides with deeply textured grip at ends. Oval eyes with inner tortoiseshell margins. Auxiliary lenses (without margins) folding in behind the front from the joints. Glazed with spherical lenses.


2003.131

Ex Hugh Orr Collection (gift of Miss Kusoom Vadgama FCOptom, 2003)



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