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 ...

June 15 (UPI) --An unusual pair of eyeglasses believed to be nearly 300 years old were rescued from a New Zealand landfill and auctioned online for more than $5,000. The Tip Shop, a store operated by ...

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 ...