Two cards from the first mass-produced American Cards Game. The improved and
Illustrated Game of Dr. Busby, 1843, quite scarce |
Lorgnette shaped like a pair of scissors glasses, 9.5 cm length, 3.7 cm
diameter, Magnifying lens, the hallmark is a crab, representing France -
after 1838. Very unusual |
The Disputation of St. Katherine with the Philosophers, anonymous, Austria,
c. 1455-1460, part of an altar dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria, St.
Lorenzen Church, St. Lorenzen ob Murau in Steinmark, Austria, courtesy of
Institute for the Material Culture of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern
Period, Krems, Austria |
Four lens spectacles, rectangular steel frame, x bridge, turn-pin sides,
circa 1820-40, Deutsches Museum, Munich. quite unusual
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Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685), The Eye-Glass Merchant, etching, 1646, #
1962/183, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
