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purse opera glasses
OPERA GLASSES AND SPYGLASSES
purse opera glasses
Europe: France
19th c.
leather
overall: 76 x 23 mm
1999.2022
OPERA GLASSES AND SPYGLASSES
purse opera glasses
Europe: France
19th c.
leather
overall: 76 x 23 mm
Collapsible opera glasses fitted inside a beige leather evening purse. Purse inscribed with gilded decoration and inlaid with enamel panel on one side, depicting 18th c. drawing room scene in which a man is reading to two women. Brass eyepieces. Focusing wheel. Inscribed closing handle.
1999.2022
BOA Purchase, 1936