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Spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Butterworth, Frank
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
1938
gold; real tortoiseshell
DBL: 22 mm; eye: 38 mm x 41 mm; overall: 120 mm; side length: 148 mm

Spectacles. 9-carat gold frame with engraved outer decoration to bridge, lugs and sides. Bowed and fenestrated arch bridge, with clear plastic pads attached separately to inner rims on downward-looping brackets. Split centre joints and flat-section metal half sides leading to elongated real tortoiseshell straight skull-grip temple sides. Contour eyerims, unglazed.


2022.120

Gift of Mr Colin Butterworth, 2021



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