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Early Tortoise-shell Spectacles, English?, c. 1850

Inventory Number 23018


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.23018

Item type
Object
Provenance
None
Primary inscriptions
None
Physical material
Silver
Glass
Tortoiseshell
Object type
Spectacles
Dimensions
Height: 30mm Width: 113mm Depth: 159mm Weight: 17g
Inventory No
23018

Description

Early round tortoise-shell spectacles with oval lenses and pivoted temples. One of the lenses is flat and the other convex-shaped.