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Spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Asia: India, Bombay
1940s
tortoiseshell; glass
DBL: 24 mm; eye: 39 mm; side: 157 mm

Spectacles. Dark brown and yellow mottled tortoiseshell frame. Regular bridge. Centre lugs and metal-shell joints, horizontally pinned. Extra-long skull-grip sides with flared ends. Round eye rims, glazed with glass prescription lenses.


2014.611

Gift of Ms Alison Adams, 2014



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