Objects
Patent spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Wheway Optical Co Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
Early-Mid 20th c.
rolled gold; plastic; Xylonite
DBL: 26 mm; eye: 36 mm
2024.536
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Wheway Optical Co Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
Early-Mid 20th c.
rolled gold; plastic; Xylonite
DBL: 26 mm; eye: 36 mm
Spectacles with combination frame. Gold-filled frame with thin flat-section wire rims sunken into Xylonite rim covers. Straight bowed bridge. Unpadded gold plaquets as extensions of pliable arms stemming from the bridge. Thin wire curl sides with end stumps. Slightly flattened round eye rims, unglazed. Patent number marked behind bridge.
2024.536
Gift of Mr Brian Drew, 2024