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Gold frame spectacles with dark plastic covering eye rims and curl sides

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Catalogue Number: 2149
Gold frame spectacles with dark plastic covering eye rims and curl sides
Category: Spectacles and lenses
Sub-Category: Spectacles (with lenses)
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1930s and 1940s
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Description Of Item: 'Gold' spectacle frame, pantoscopic ('fulvue') shape, eye rims, bridge and sides covered with dark brown plastic. Curl sides, pad bridge. No frame markings but measured size is 40/24. Glazed with R and L +2.50 D Sph glass lenses
How Acquired: Donated by Don MacRaild. Project coordinator Vanuatu Prevention of Blindness Project
Date Acquired: Jan 2013
Condition: Good
Location: Archive Office. Spectacles cabinet Drawer 13

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