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Culture:English
Title:spectacles with case
Date Made:1760-1780
Type:Personal Equipment
Materials:base metal: steel; glass, leather
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Accession Number:  HD 69.0150
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Clarence Livingston
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Steel spectcles with colorless, circular glass lens (one lens cracked), stamped "70" on the outside of the side arm, (represents power i.e. the right prescription for a 70 year old person), so-called temple spectacles with loops at the finials, hinges have been repaired, fitted into a sewn reddish leather case with one end open, case appears to be contemporary with the spectacles, old paper label on glass lens "--ARTIN."

Subjects:
Glass; Leather

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