Mother-of-pearl opera glasses

PART OF:: Mother-of-pearl opera glasses with leather case

Made:: 1885-1895 in Paris

Pair of opera glasses, brass body covered with mother-of-pearl

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

Buy this image as a print

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

Pair of opera glasses, brass body covered with mother-of-pearl
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Pair of opera glasses, brass body covered with mother-of-pearl, supplied by James Lennie Opticians, Edinburgh, French, probably made in Paris, 1885-1895. Engraved with the owner's details.

Details

Category:: Optics

Object Number:: 1985-178/1

Materials:: glass, brass (copper, zinc alloy) and mother-of-pearl

Measurements:: overall (standing fully extended): 87 mm x 110 mm x 45 mm, .336kg

type:: opera glasses and binoculars

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.