Inlaid Marquetry Box with Twenty-Eight Pairs of Antique Eyeglasses
includes pairs with ear rests, hand-held lorgnette spectacles, nose-resting spectacles, and folding spring lorgnette spectacles

box features mother of pearl and varicolored wood inlay, with lacquered surface

also includes:
British Optical Association Library and Museum Catalogue, The Council of the British Optical Association at Clifford's Inn, London, E.C.4, 1932
Box: 5 3/8 x 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. (13.65 x 28.26 x 22.23 cm.)

The glasses are in overall good to fair condition, consistent with age and use. Some tarnishing to silver and rusting to metal surfaces, and cracks and abrasions to glass. Box is in overall very good condition, consistent with age and use. Some cracking to veneers.

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