Straight spectacles

Made:: 1780-1850 in London

maker:: Blunt and Son

Straight spectacles, tortoiseshell frames, in tuck in case, red leather, supplied and possibly made by T. and T. Blunt (Blunt & Son), London, England, c. 1820

Details

Category:: Ophthalmology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A89056

Materials:: frame, tortoiseshell and case, leather

Measurements:: length 106 mm
width 12 mm
H.D.C.D.: width 59 mm
height 27 mm
case: length 120 mm

type:: spectacles

credit:: Woods, C.H.

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