ASSORTED METAL FRAME SPECTACLES OR EYEGLASSES, LOT OF 15
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Description
ASSORTED METAL FRAME SPECTACLES OR EYEGLASSES, LOT OF 15, mostly with oval or round lenses/frames but including one eight-sided example, lens colors including cobalt blue (notably on an X-bridged pair marked several times "PUGH", light amber, smoky gray or black, various metals including several steel, many likely gold filled including a "REALFIT" and an unusually-thick concave round lens pair with pearlescent celluloid nosepads and one offset lens held on a forward-extending 3/8" rigid arm, all spectacles with curved wire temples. Various makers. 19th and 20th century. 5 1/4" LOA.
Provenance:
From the private collection of John and Val Tull, York, PA.
Condition
Very good to excellent overall condition, each with light to moderate routine wear and perhaps some bending especially to temples; some with moderate corrosion and a couple with replacement pins; a few of the frameless examples having some flaking or shallow chipping to outer edge of lenses.
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