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Scenery spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles; sunglasses
North America: USA
Mid 19th c.
steel; glass
DBL: 27 mm; eye: 35 mm; side: 135 mm

Scenery spectacles (often misidentified as marksman or shooting spectacles). Steel frame. Crank ('English') bridge. Solid-front horizontal lugs enclosing centre joints. Straight sides with spatula ends. Oval eye rims, glazed with amber-tinted lenses, part-frosted with a small round clear aperture to each eye.


2024.268

College purchase, 2024 Ex-Alan Leach Collection



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