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FAM202 lorgnette
LORGNETTES
lorgnette
Lafont, Paris
Europe: France, Paris
1998
plastic
eye: 42 mm; overall: 36 mm x 140 mm

Lorgnette. Transparent green plastic front with flat arched bridge and oval eye rims (unglazed). Brown and yellow mottled plastic (imitation tortoiseshell) short-to-medium length sinuous handle, shaped so that the front folds into it to produce a short-handled hand frame. Yellow metal screw pivot. White inscription on handle tip. Very faint markings on one side of handle denote skin markings, eyes and mouth of a snake.


2024.17

Gift of Ms Piet Meininger, 2023



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