Monocle
Venice, end 1700. Nice horn pocket eyeglass made with a negative lens. The lens is kept in the handle when it is folded. Many air bubbles included in the vitreous mass.
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Monocle
France 1820. Steel brushed monocle. The beads also in steel are worked with diamond facets.
Microscopes
England, 1820. Little boxwood with glass. The box used to contain living insects to be observed with a microscope.
Menu spectacles
Germany, 1920. Silver brooch lorgnette with pearl red coral pearl and marcasites. It’also known as menu spectacles. Beautiful floral composition.
Martin type Eyeglasses
England, 1770. Temple spectacles with ring ends. The lens has horn circles, Martin margins of the first type. Contained in its iron clamshell case.
Magic lantern
Germany, 1930. Aluminum magic lantern with green painted body and lion paws. Contained in a cardboard box. The stamp is from the Fascist Era.
Ivory Brisè fan
France, 1820. Ivory brisè fan with a small telescope hidden in the middle. The guards are decorated with two cherubs.
Iron Temples
Italy, 1751. Incredible piece of iron spectacles temple. The right lens signed ”Camillo Lazzarini fecit 1751 Pesaro”, indicates that it is one of the first temple spectacles depicted in the British trade card after the spiral temple from Scarlett. The power of the lenses is about -18.00 diopters. Content in impressed leather case.
Golf Temples
Italy, 1910. Celluloid spectacles ivory color with golf temples. They are the first temples that hook the ears and they are so named because they resemble the shape of the golf-club.
Folding Temple
Austria, 1870. Gilded brass eyeglasses, equipped with an extendable pin arms and X-shaped bridge with barrel separator. It is contained in the Moroccan red leather case decorated with cross stitch.