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Maker(s):Chapin, Otis
Culture:American
Title:spectacles
Date Made:1820-1830
Type:Personal Equipment
Materials:silver, glass
Place Made:United States; New England
Accession Number:  HD 61.030
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Pair of spectacles with coin silver frames, oval glass lenses, adjustable pin-in-slot side arms, tear-shaped finials, right hinge of frames is repaired, stamped "O. CHAPIN" in a serrated rectangle on the inside right at temple, stampled with the number "20" on the outside at the same location; these glasses were made by Otis Chapin of the Connecticut River Valley area. Maker needs to be researched.

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