Objects
Walter & Herbert - 'Kipling' spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
The Optoplast Actman Eyewear Co. Limited
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire, Liverpool
February 2016
plastic; metal
DBL: 17 mm; eye: 54 mm; side: 140 mm
2016.198
SPECTACLES
spectacles
The Optoplast Actman Eyewear Co. Limited
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire, Liverpool
February 2016
plastic; metal
DBL: 17 mm; eye: 54 mm; side: 140 mm
Spectacles. Mixed tone purple plastic front. Pad bridge. Shallow lugs bearing high joints, horizontally pinned at front and sides. Reinforced two-tone green and purple drop end sides, the left tip bearing a WH monogram on the outside, the right tip bearing a bowler hat motif on the inside. Shallow rectangular eye rims, glazed with plastic prescription lenses.
2016.198
Gift of The Optoplast Actman Eyewear Co. Limited via Mr James Conway, 2016/Pledged to the collection by Mr Neil Handley, 2016