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Optical — Eye Glasses - Industry Science & Technology - Philips Auctions Australia
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| Philips Auctions Australia | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 18 |
| Lots with images: | 18 |
| Prices available: | 18 |
Category:
Optical - Eye Glasses
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A pair of French enamelled and mother-of-pearl opera glasses, late 19th century, with maker's mark for Premier Paris, retailed through Gurney & Ware, Kansas city, USA, having a folding handle and mother-of-pearl eye pieces, exquisitely enamelled with… | *** |  |
| *** | A French pair of mother of pearl-inlaid opera glasses, Chevalier Opticien, Paris, first half 20th century of typical form with a double-hinged and locking handle, brass-finished with mother-of-pearl inlays, fittings, and handle. Width 10 cm. (excluding… | *** |  |
| *** | A lovely pair of ladies gold lorgnettes, 14ct rose gold, early 20th century, made as a classic pair of sprung and hinged lorgnettes, finely scrolled and pierced to handle set with cabochon, round rubies of pink red colour, fitted with bail. Length 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of French enamelled porcelain opera glasses, early 20th century, the pink glasses, enamel decorated with musical fairy figures and flora, with mother-of-pearl eye pieces and brass frames, and a folding pink porcelain handle, width 11.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of French brass and guilloche enamel opera glasses, circa 1900, with maker's mark of Jules Carpentier, the jumelle glasses with folding handle finely decorated with blue enamel, floral sprigs upon a pattern pink guilloche enamel ground, with mark… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique silver mounted tortoiseshell spectacles case, early 20th century, the cover with inlaid and applied silver decoration, length 13.5 cm, width 6.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A fourteen carat gold antique folding Lorgnette, 19th century, French, hallmarked, having a strong frame and spring mechanism in working order, with a bright cut square form tapering handle to a circular terminal; signed So to the nosepiece with hallmarks… | *** |  |
| *** | A lovely antique pair of lorgnettes on muff chain, rolled yellow gold, the lorgnettes presented as a lovely pair of tortoiseshell cased glasses with gold panel to one side, fitted with bail and suspended from a 9ct yellow gold oval belcher link muff chain… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of antique French ivory and brass opera glasses, circa 1890, adjustable glasses with mark of 12 and Verres to the frame, housed in the original silk lined soft leather case, width 11 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian sterling silver chatelaine spectacles case, 1887 London, with maker's mark for William Comyns & Sons, the front cast and pierced over purple velvet and decorated with a central peacock, putti and trailing foliage, with a chain and clip with… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of vintage mother-of-pearl opera glasses, late 19th to early 20th century, the traditionally styled binoculars in brass with mother-of-pearl casing. Length 10 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Edwardian mother-of-pearl Lorgnette, early 20th century, the retractable spring loaded lorgnette with a shaped case and folding oval glasses. Length 7.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two silver chatelaine spectacles cases, one sterling silver, the other silver plated, includes one pair of spectacles, 1903 Birmingham, with maker's mark for William Aitken, and other Sheffield plate, the velvet lined sterling silver case with a pierced… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique gold mounted hair pin, a lorgnette, two small magnifying glasses and a gold cased pencil, length 10 cm, and smaller | *** |  |
| *** | A sterling silver chatelaine spectacles case, late 19th century, probably American, with maker's mark of Lf to lozenge, the spectacles case with chain and bar, decorated with engraved scroll and leaf forms in low relief, marked to reverse, includes tinted… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 9ct gold spectacles and an .800 German silver spectacle case, length 12.5 cm, width 5.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An antique gilt metal lorgnette, early 20th century, apparently unmarked, length 9.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of vintage opera glasses, 20th century, of faceted design in ivorine and brass, with 2.5 times magnification; with a green leather pouch, width 10 cm | *** |  |