Ornamental gold folding eyeglasses

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

Made:: 1850-1869

Ornamental gold folding eyeglasses with double action spring
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Ornamental gold folding eyeglasses with double action spring and oval lenses. Dated 1860.

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Category:: Optics

Object Number:: 1921-323/297

Materials:: gold

Measurements:: overall: 100 x 26 mm

type:: hand spectacles - lorgnette

credit:: Dunscombe collection of spectacles

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Ornamental gold folding eyeglasses

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