ASSORTED METAL FRAME SPECTACLES OR EYEGLASSES, LOT OF EIGHT
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Description
ASSORTED METAL FRAME SPECTACLES OR EYEGLASSES, LOT OF EIGHT, mostly oval or round lenses/frames and including an emerald-green lens double octagonal hinged brass-frame example with illegible signature, other lens colors including cobalt, dark smoky gray and smoky light blue, various metals including mostly steel, and a couple unknown plated white metals, a few spectacles with straight sliding-pin extension temples and some double-hinged. Various makers. Mid to late 19th century. 5 3/4" LOA.
Provenance:
From the private collection of John and Val Tull, York, PA.
Condition
Good to excellent overall condition, each with light to moderate routine wear and perhaps some bending especially to temples, some with moderate or heavy corrosion and a couple with loose/replacement pins; cobalt blue lens example with heavy rust and missing part of one temple, one lens cracked on the smoky light blue example.
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