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Culture:American
Title:spectacles with case
Date Made:1850-1860
Type:Personal Equipment
Materials:base metal: brass, tinned sheet iron; glass, wool felt
Place Made:United States
Accession Number:  HD 69.0151
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Clarence Livingston
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Brass spectacles with colorless oval glass lenses (one lens cracked), wire non-adjustable side arms, crank bridge, housed in an elongated cigar-shaped, tinned sheet iron box with hinge in one side, lined with a cream-colored wool felt lining, stamped on box on its edge at opening is "PAT JAN 1880"; this box is a "Parker" case, case is slightly later than the spectacles.

Subjects:
Brass; Glass; Wool

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