Catalogue Number: 1020 Shooting spectacles Category: Spectacles and lenses Sub-Category: Spectacles, shooting Year Of Publication/Manufacture: c1900 Time Period: 19th C Description Of Item: Shooting spectacles in blued steel oval eye frame. Black velvet padded bridge. One eye fitted with occluder with rotating disc with 4 different sized pinholes. Other eye unglazed. Straight sides hinged 3 cm from front (missing original gauze side-shields). W: 12.0 cm x D: 3.2 cm Historical Significance: See another example of shooting spectacles cat No 948 How Acquired: Donated by Mrs E Beveridge per David Balon, optometrist, Burnie, Tasmania Date Acquired: March 1974 Condition: Poor; frame badly corroded Location: Archive Office. Spectacles cabinet Drawer 2 |