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Temple Grip spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Melson Wingate Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1956
tortoiseshell; metal
eye: 40 mm; side: 138 mm
2017.767
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Melson Wingate Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1956
tortoiseshell; metal
eye: 40 mm; side: 138 mm
Spectacles. Real brown and yellow mottled tortoiseshell frame. Regular, slightly bowed bridge. Off-set lugs with unusual design metal centre joints, vertically pinned to lug and horizontally pinned in the same plane to the sides. Thick, straight and rahter long sides of unusual construction providing for a thickened shoulder that grips the outer orbital margin. PRO eye rims, unglazed.
2017.767
Gift of Mr Nigel Wingate FCOptom, 2017