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The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
Recent News Articles: July 2013, Treasures Magazine and Winter 2014, Pitt Magazine |
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The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
Recent News Articles: July 2013, Treasures Magazine and Winter 2014, Pitt Magazine |
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 Reading glass, iron frame, amber lens, amber handle, lens diameter about 4 cm, 17th-18th century, in the Amber Collection of TUI-AG Hannover, on loan to the Bernsteinmuseum, Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany Originally belonged to the collection Preussag - Hannover" Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten Aktien Gesellschaft". Extremely rare |
 Detail of the Portrait of James Bidwell Gilman, painted by Jared Flagg, 1840, Connecticut Historical Society |
 Mirror fan with bone sticks pierced and gilded, the narrow paper leaf with elegant figures in 18th century costume. The Guardsticks worked as twisted rope and set with oval mirrors and enamel detail. French, circa 1860 |
 Portrait of Rembrandt's Mother (oil on canvas), Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69), Dutch, © Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wilts./The Bridgeman Art Library, WLN 1879 |
 Eyeglasses taken from prisoners of the Kaunas 9th fort death camp in 1941, (exhumed from the massacre field between 1962 -1970), Kaunas’ 9th Fort Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania |
McAllister Family Dynasty
Monocles and Other Single Vision Lenses
Masterpiece Spectacles
Eyeglass Industry Around Nuremburg
Leather Framed Eyeglasses
...and much more
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