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Spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1860
steel; glass
DBL: 20 mm; eye: 38 mm
2018.705
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1860
steel; glass
DBL: 20 mm; eye: 38 mm
Spectacles. Blued steel wire frame. Bowed K-bridge (heavily dipped, almost an X-bridge). Thin centre joints. Thin square-section turnpin sides with wax-dipped end terminals. Oval eye rims, glazed with bi-concave prescription lenses.
2018.705
Gift of Mr Richard Betjemann FCOptom, 2018