Traveling merchant with various items for sale, about 1680, after D’apres
Bonnard, print, 19th century |
Brillenhausierer, From the essay "Spectacles 100 years before and 100
years after the invention of printing", Universitats-Augenklinik und
Augenheilanstalt Basel 1864-1914, editor Professor Carl Mellinger (Basle
1915), p. 139, photo courtesy of the Medical History Institute, University
of Bern, EARLIEST KNOWN |
Rivet Spectacles (the earliest style), late 14-early 15th century,
Bergen-Op-Zoom, The Netherlands |
Geo. L Hart & Son, Carte de Visite, circa 1885, Northborough Historical
Society |
