Hyperlinks for Collectors

Four Nuremburg single-wire spectacles, 17th century, Prussian Culture Possession, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
Four Nuremburg single-wire spectacles, 17th century, Prussian Culture Possession, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
Large drawer of fancy decorated lorgnettes, mid 19th – first quarter 20th century
Large drawer of fancy decorated lorgnettes, mid 19th – first quarter 20th century
Silver frame hand crafted spectacles for near and distance, hand-carved wooden case, Ceylon, very early 18th century
Silver frame hand crafted spectacles for near and distance, hand-carved wooden case, Ceylon, very early 18th century
Group of 10 (mostly single but up to 6 draw) spyglasses along with 3 scent-bottle spyglasses, late 18th – early 19th century,  Friedenwald - Romano Library, Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore
Group of 10 (mostly single but up to 6 draw) spyglasses along with 3 scent-bottle spyglasses, late 18th – early 19th century, Friedenwald - Romano Library, Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore

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Guide to Assist in the Identification

20th century Spectacles

Virtual Museum with numerous Slideshows

Match the Famous Individual with their Contribution

Match the Year to the Significant Event

Wearing and Preserving Antique Spectacles

"Object of the Month" from the BOA Museum website

Wearing and Preserving Antique Spectacles (with a PowerPoint presentation)

Optical Fans

Objects Made of Horn Slide Show

Objects Made of Baleen (Whalebone)

Rivet Spectacles-The Earliest Style

Slide Show of Objects Made of Tortoiseshell

The Madame Heymann Optical Collection

Michael Lebby Wearing Unusual Examples (a slide show)

Spectacles of Well Known People in History

Slide Show of X-Bridge Spectacles

Benjamin Martin's Visual Glasses

Gnallic Shipwreck 1583

Franklin: Father of the Bifocal

Michael Lebby Wearing the BOA Museum Collection (Several Slideshows)

Solid Ivory Objects

Earliest Dated Cases

Slide Show of Contemporary People Wearing Optical Antiques

Edward Scarlett's Trade Card, 1714-1727

Optisches Museum, Jena

Museo Frederic Marθs

Developmental History of the Telescope

Slide Show of Group Images from a Prominent Private Collection

Future Additions

A. Survey of Rarities


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