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Chinese folding spectacles
SPECTACLES
oriental folding spectacles
Asia: China
18th c.
tortoiseshell; brass

Folding spectacles with light brown tortoiseshell and brass frames. Centre forehead rest consisting of a straight metal pivot with pear-shaped piece of tortoiseshell at the end and two holes each side of rims for ear loop thread. One rim cracked.


1999.884

BOA Purchase, 1929



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