ASSORTED METAL FRAME SPECTACLES OR EYEGLASSES, LOT OF NINE, mostly with oval or round colorless lenses/frames, various metals including several brass, some likely silver plated and one likely gold filled blue lens example, one brass example stamped with a standing Elk mark, and a blued-steel example with smoky glass lenses, most spectacles with straight sliding-pin extension temples and some double-hinged, others non folding. Various makers. 19th century. 5 1/4" LOA.

From the private collection of John and Val Tull, York, PA.

Good to excellent overall condition, each with moderate routine wear and perhaps some bending; some with moderate or heavy corrosion and damage to pins/hinges; moderate rust to one of the blued-steel example, and octagonal-lens example missing a temple.