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sample of cable spectacle sides
SPECTACLES
spectacle part
Wheway Optical Co Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
1932
metal; paper
attached letter: 260 x 201 mm
2002.246
SPECTACLES
spectacle part
Wheway Optical Co Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
1932
metal; paper
attached letter: 260 x 201 mm
Typewritten piece of letter paper threaded through with eleven nickel cable spectacle sides showing the various processes of manufacture: simple cable, butt-fitted, soldered, hammered, sharp shoulder, headed, colletts stamped, back stamped, pierced, back clipped, pear ending. Also covering letter with a picture of the Wheway factory in Barr Street Birmingham, addressed to the Northampton Polytechnic Institute, dated 25 November 1932.
2002.246
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