- Subject
- Optical instruments
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Carpenter & Westley
- Provenance
- Used by Sir Richard Owen, (d.1892)
- Primary inscriptions
- On case: "CARPENTER & WESTLEY 24 REGENT ST WATERLOO PLACE LONDON".
- Object type
- Spectacles
- Dimensions
- Height: 149mm Width: 36mm Depth: 11mm Weight: 27g
- Inventory No
- 73162
Description
Steel rims and curl sides; leather covered case with maker's stamp. Oval cylindrical lenses to correct myopic astigmatism. Paper label attached to case "Sir Richd Owen".
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