Pantoscopic spectacles with one piece side-arms

PART OF:: Display board of spectacles and lenses, c.1921

Made:: 1834 in London and Birmingham

maker:: George Richards Elkington

Tortoiseshell pantoscopic spectacles with one piece side-arms

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Tortoiseshell pantoscopic spectacles with one piece side-arms
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Tortoiseshell pantoscopic spectacles with one piece side-arms. Elkington patent number 6692, dated 1834.

Details

Category:: Optics

Object Number:: 1921-323/195

Materials:: tortoiseshell and complete

Measurements:: lenses: 36 mm x 22 mm
overall (folded): 127 mm

type:: spectacles

credit:: Dunscombe collection of spectacles

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