The Duke of Milan ordering glasses from Florence, Italy, 1462
Original page from the Nuremburg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel - 1493
The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers incorporated 1629
Nuremburg spectacles in the front cover of a book, 1666
Wooden case for Masterpiece spectacles, 1678
Francesco Redi discusses history, notes a 1299 manuscript, and ascribes their invention to Allesandro Spina, 1678, Bernard Becker
Hand-decorated wooden double case, 1759
Nuremburg spectacles in the front cover of a book, 1716
Spectacles fastened to the inside cover of a book, 1754, Poulet's Atlas
Heavily engraved spectacle case for folding besicles, 1759
Fliptop steel case, George Brown, Ordsall, 1764
Carving of sinister picture, 1766
Hand carved wooden case, 1769, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA
Steel temple spectacles with green lenses in leather case, 1774
Hand-carved wood, Nuremburg spectacles, 1779
Engraving of the Cheated Kees, 1793
De La Cour, Maker of the Improved Patent Pantoscopic spectacles, Chatham, est. 1795
On the sidearm of a pair of silver spectacles, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth
Martin's Margins in a steel clamshell case, 1796
Hand-carved mahogany wooden case, I.R. 1803
Copperplate by G. Humphrey - colored by hand, 1821
Silver spectacles 1823, Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Copyright
Historic New England, Boston, MA, 2003
Empire silver reading glass with horn of plenty motif, 1826
McAllister & Brother's catalogue, Philadelphia, 1856
Noel's Pat. Jany 11, 1859
Pat'd Jan.24 1860 Ext'd, C.Parker, spectacles case
Articles of Association, Optical Heritage Museum, American Optical, Southbridge, 1869
Later Parker Patent, 1872-74 in U.S. and Canada
Edward Haucks PATENT Sept 9th 1879
Edward Haucks PATENT Sept 9th 1879
Pat. Aug. 30, 1881, on a metal case, Newton History Museum
Tortoiseshell case with emblem stating To Mother from her Sons, Dunald & Duncan, December 1887
Medal struck for the 1915 convention of the Coca Cola bottling company
OHS medal awarded to speakers at the annual meetings
