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Wig spectacles
SPECTACLES
wig spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
Mid-late 18th c.
steel; glass
DBL: 26 mm; eye: 31 mm; side: 106 mm

Spectacles. Steel frame. C-bridge. Elongated horizontal lugs with split centre joints, featuring some exposed rivets. Short straight (slightly tapering) sides with ring ends. '80' engraved on outer surface of left side. Round eye rims, glazed with slightly greenish-tinted lenses. Together with a roughly trimmed card erroneously comparing the pair to the so-called 'Cromwell's Spectacles'.


2021.355

Gift of Mr Colin Butterworth, 2021



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