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Specsavers spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Specsavers Opticians
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1980s
metal; plastic

Own-brand spectacles from a high street multiple chain. Yellow metal frame. Straight-topped, slightly bowed and ribbed bridge with clear (now yellowing) plastic pads attached separately to inner rims. Swept-back lugs, leading to off-set centre joints and flat-section drop-end sides with inlaid imitation brown and yellow tortoiseshell panels and similarly coloured plastic end covers. Eye rims glazed with plastic prescription lenses featuring D-segment bifocals.


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Gift of Specsavers Opticians, Crawley, 2019



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