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Early sunglasses with Crookes lenses
SPECTACLES
sunglasses
Chance Brothers Limited
Europe: United Kingdom
1930s?
plastic; glass
eye: 39 mm

Sunglasses. Light brown mottled plastic (imitation tortoiseshell) frame. Slightly bowed regular arch bridge. Horizontal lugs holding centre joints, vertically pinned at front and horizontally pinned at sides. Reinforced drop-end sides. Round eyes, glazed with light grey-tinted glass Crookes lenses bearing original sticky label promoting Chance's Crooks Guaranteed and British-made glass lenses.


2012.106

College Purchase, 2012



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