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Gold-filled metal spectacles fitted with cement bifocal lenses

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Catalogue Number: 1956
Gold-filled metal spectacles fitted with cement bifocal lenses
Category: Spectacles and lenses
Sub-Category: Spectacles (with lenses)
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: c 1900
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Description Of Item: Light weight gold-filled metal frame, oval eye shape with fixed straight bridge and curl sides. Cork lined nose pads. Glazed with flat glass lenses of low plus power to which are cemented A seg wafers for the reading addition. 110 x 35 mm
Condition: Poor. Needs cleaning and right pad lost
Location: Archive Office. Spectacles cabinet Drawer 13

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