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Spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Europe: United Kingdom
19th c.
steel; glass
eye: 33 mm; side: 125 mm

Spectacles. Thin blued steel wire frame (blueing mostly worn away). Soldered arch bridge. Split centre joints. Thin straight sides with spatula ends. Oval eye rims glazed with glass prescription lenses.


2023.39

Gift of Lisa Morgan in memory of Mr John Beddows, 2022



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