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Culture:American
Title:spectacles with case
Date Made:1870-1880
Type:Personal Equipment
Materials:base metal: steel, glass; leather; wood; fabric
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Accession Number:  HD 73.068
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. John Boyden
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Rectangular leather on wood case, with rounded end, other end has u-shaped curve. Stamped gold inscrption on case reads: "TRADE/ CAL/ MARK/ C.A.L. Langton/ 419 Boylston St./ Boston, Mass." (retailer); thin wire metal frames, pantoscopic form of bifocal lenses, scroll bridge.

Subjects:
Leather; Glass

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