Crystal perfume bottle
France, 1820. Crystal perfume bottle with a small telescope inserted in the center.
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Coulisse Glasses
United States, 1870. Bifocals silver spectacles with coulisse temples. The frame has a different angle in the lower zone to help reading. Patent registered in 1867 by GEORGE D. EDMONDSON. Contained in wooden case.
Celebrating brooch
Italy, 1988. Celebrating brooch for the 35th year in the job. When archieving this goal, the optician becomes Master Optician. This brooch belongs to Urbano Vascellari, since 1988.
Cable Temples
Italy, 1930. Cable temples spectacles with meniscus lenses contained in cardboard case signed Spinelli-Venezia
Brass theatre telescope
France, late ’700. Fantastic brass theater telescope , ivory and blue Limoges enamels with gold decorations. Case in papier mache and red cloth, covered with red morocco.
Bow Spectacles
Nurnberg copper bow spectacles with yellow thread, in the nose area, to reduce the slipping. Lenses signed ”London” to guarantee the high glass quality. Contained in a trilobate and carved boxwood case, from northern Italian appennines. Consists of two lamine retained by iron nails and a lower leather strip that acts as a locking and stopping of the spectacles.
Bow Spectacles
Leather bow spectacles with iron bridge. Nord european area, England early XVIII century. Rare and extremely delicate nose spectacles. The thickness of the frame, measuring less than two millimeters , and the flexible iron bridge fastened by rivet pins, made this frame extremely lightweight and elastic but at the same time, not very resistant. The lenses are particularly oxidized. Intransparency numerous micro air bubbles trapped in the glassy mass are visible, which is typical of the earliest productions. The spectacles are contained in a contemporary case made of boiled leather, and embellished with dotted diamond shapes with longitudinal and parallel lines obtained by hot pressure.
Bow Spectacles
Venice, mid 1700. Whalebone bow spectacles with dark green plano lenses.Contained in cardboard case and ink stained at tortoiseshell effect. Presents felt pads on the nasal side to reduce slipping caused by the lens diameter of about 4 cm.
Bow Spectacles
Spain? first half of 1700. Bow leather spectacles held in wooden case with leather hinges. The lens on the right, while having the same power and thickness of the left, is fixed to the frame with a thickness due to a probable loss of elasticity of leather. The thickness is actually the rim of a Nuremberg copper frame.
Bow Spectacles
Germany, about 1770. The peculiarity of these two copper glasses is the construction of the lens called ”facetten glaser”, due to the type of manufacture. The glasses with yellow silk on the nose are very rare, as it is made with plano lenses. The lenses are slightly darker but not too much to protect from the sun and that’s why the glasses was described as ”conservative”. Used to preserve the eyes during the reading from the white paper. Held in their double ray-skin case.