Collection

Folding Glasses (c.1760-70) with a silver bridge, in shaped fishskin case

Made:
1760-1770

Folding Glasses (c.1760-70) with a silver bridge, in shaped fishskin case

Details

Category:
Optics
Object Number:
1993-1163
type:
eyeglasses
credit:
National Maritime Museum

Parts

Folding Glasses (c.1760-70) with a silver bridge

Folding Glasses (c.1760-70) with a silver bridge

Folding Glasses (c.1760-70) with a silver bridge

Object Number:
1993-1163/1
type:
eyeglasses
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Shaped fishskin case for folding glasses (c.1760-70)

Shaped fishskin case for folding glasses (c.1760-70)

Shaped fishskin case for folding glasses (c.1760-70)

Object Number:
1993-1163/2
type:
spectacle case
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

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