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Shur-On TX1748H Windsor-type fitting spectacles
SPECTACLES
fitting spectacles
Shur-on Standard Optical Company Inc
North America: USA, New York, Rochester
1930s
rolled gold; zylonite; glass
eye: 40 mm
2016.693
SPECTACLES
fitting spectacles
Shur-on Standard Optical Company Inc
North America: USA, New York, Rochester
1930s
rolled gold; zylonite; glass
eye: 40 mm
Pair of Windsor-type spectacles (specimen used for fitting). Gold-filled frame fully covered with dark red-brown plastic (cellulose nitrate - 'zylonite'). Bowed W-bridge, split centre joints, wire curl sides, round eye rims, glazed with glass retail display lenses bearing etched specification.
2016.693
Gift of Mr Rian Love/OATS/City University, 2015