English rimless rigid eyeglasses with horizontal bar

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

Made:: 1900-1919 in England

English rimless rigid eyeglasses with horizontal bar

This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

English rimless rigid eyeglasses with horizontal bar
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

English rimless rigid eyeglasses with horizontal bar, gold frame and oval astigmatic lenses, c. 1910.

Details

Category:: Optics

Object Number:: 1921-323/381

Materials:: gold plated (gilded), metal (unknown), copper (alloy), brass (copper, zinc alloy), glass and cork

Measurements:: overall: 35 mm x 97 mm x 10 mm, , .01kg

type:: nose spectacles - pince nez

credit:: Dunscombe collection of spectacles

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero . Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.