Objects
SPECTACLES
child spectacles
United Artists Corporation
Europe: United Kingdom
1986
metal; plastic
DBL: 16 mm; eye: 53 mm
Children's aviator-style spectacles. Yellow metal frame. Flat bridge and browbar. Clear silicone nose pads attached separately to inner rims. Swept-back lugs leading to offset sprung joints. Dark brown-painted outer surface to drop-end sides, with lighter brown plastic end covers. Polygonal/contour eye rims, glazed with retail display lenses, the left lens featuring a pink representation of the Pink Panther cartoon character peering through a heart-shaped aperture.
2022.666
Gift of Lisa Morgan in memory of Mr John Beddows, 2022