Objects
spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Europe:
c.1900
steel; glass
eye: 26 mm x 34 mm; overall front: 112 mm; side: 130 mm
2014.903
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Europe:
c.1900
steel; glass
eye: 26 mm x 34 mm; overall front: 112 mm; side: 130 mm
Spectacles. Thin steel frame. Arched scroll bridge. Centre joints. Bowed straight sides with blued spatula ends, both outer ends featuring illustration of a key and inner ends bearing remnants of plastic padding. Oval eyes, glazed with prescription lenses. Historic retail tag bearing the pritned number 0.6 on oval-shaped green card, attached by a length of red cotton.
2014.903
Gift of June Cannon, 2010