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Glasses Go Gay
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
newspaper cutting
Daily Herald
Europe: United Kingdom
April 1951
newsprint
overall: 66 mm x 48 mm

Single column article, excerpted from the 'Daily Herald', notifying readers of a range of coloured spectacle frames including champagne, lilac and sherry, an exotic frame inset with beads, a frame with lacy filigree top edging, bright red frames for teenagers and contrasting all these with the peach, pale blue, white and shell options in the NHS range - 'the neat, but not gaudy National Health specs'. Mounted on page 8 of a scrapbook.


2013.48

Gift of Mr Peter Collings, 2010



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