Advertisement for Spectacles- 1800s

Rivet Spectacles – The first wearable vision aid.

Top Left
Reproduction based on the Trig Lane, London, UK discovery, circa 1440
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Reproduction based on the fragment found at Merton Priory, Surry, UK, 1400 -1600
Bottom Left
Reproduction based on the Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands discovery. Late 14th – early15th century
Bottom Right
Reproduction based on the spectacles in the  Pannello dipinto (dett.) di San Girolamo, Sant Martino e San Sebastiano, 1450, ca Museo Nazionale di Arte della Catalogna – MNAC, Barcellona (Spagna)
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Reproduction Leather case for Rivet Spectacles.

English Folding Nose Spectacles- c.1770

Visual Spectacles with Green Convex Glasses and Horn Annuli

Nuremberg  nose glasses from the 17th century

 

Assortment of spectacles from the 19th century