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Spectacles with bifocal lenses
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Metzler
Europe: Germany
Late 20th c.
rolled gold; plastic
side: 135 mm

Spectacles comprising 1/10 12 carat gold-filled frame, grooved one-piece browbar, bridge and upper rims with dependant lens rims soldered to reverse. Bow-tie shaped X-bridge, also grooved. Clear plastic pads attached separately to inner rims. Wrap-around high joints. Part-grooved flat-section straight sides with lightly dropping black plastic end covers. Rectangular eye rims, glazed with plastic D-segment bifocal prescription lenses.

2014.265

Gift of Mrs Paula Chabrel, 2014