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Windsor Spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Hudson Howard
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Staffordshire, Walsall
c.1935
rolled gold; Xylonite; glass
eye: 37 mm

Spectacles. 1/10 10 carat gold-filled frame. Bowed W-bridge. Split centre joints. Flat-section sides with cable curl ends. Round eye rims with brown and yellow mottled plastic (imitation tortoiseshell, possibly Xylonite) rim covers (right rim cover missing a section). Glazed with glass prescription lenses.


2023.31

Gift of Lisa Morgan in memory of Mr John Beddows, 2022



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