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Wig spectacles
SPECTACLES
wig spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
1st half 19th c.
horn; metal; glass
DBL: 29 mm; eye: 23 mm x 30 mm; side: 114 mm
2018.1014
SPECTACLES
wig spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
1st half 19th c.
horn; metal; glass
DBL: 29 mm; eye: 23 mm x 30 mm; side: 114 mm
Spectacles. Dark stained horn frame. Slightly bowed arch bridge. Wide lugs with metal-to-metal (left) and ordinary metal (right) centre joints, vertically pinned. Straight, tapering sides, with roughened textured grip on inner sides at tips. Oval eye rims, glazed. Together with an historic but certainly not original tie-on paper tag marked in handwritten ink 'Horn'.
2018.1014
Gift of Mr Rian Love/OATS/City University, 2015