Everything becomes vintage at some point, and right now, it's glassware that's having a moment, with one particular style ...

Reading glasses, eyeglasses or spectacles of vintage quality have never been more collectible then now. From those early wires to those 1950s glasses with the cats-eye frames and those big ...

Illustrations of Ben Franklin often show him wearing eyeglasses. Sometimes they’re round. Sometimes they’re rectangular. Most researchers credit him with inventing the bifocal to solve his own problem ...

"Halo of Light" spectacles are an exceptionally rare example of Mughal jewelry craftsmanship. We wear spectacles to see things better. Well, at least mortals like us do. But there were two pairs of ...

Upmarket spectacles for the rich. Stirling silver frame, hall marked Birmingham 1830, with sliding sides for insertion into wigs. The lenses are R & L +4.00DS flat form. Curved lenses did not come ...

Librarys' copy autographed by author. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!269173~!0#focus ...