Opera Glasses
name: label: maker
content: Colmont
notes: label: Description
content: Each eyecup is marked “COLMONT FABT * PARIS.” The objective lenses are 30 mm diameter. The frame is black metal. The barrels are covered with black leather. A center wheel adjusts the focus. The carrying case is black leather.
label: Description
content: Colmont was in business in Paris by the 1880s and still there in the 1950s. Americans could buy Colmont instruments from Sears, Roebuck & Co. and other major firms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jane and Mary Henle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.336809
label: catalog number
content: 336809
label: accession number
content: 1978.2216
objectType: label: Object Name
content: opera glasses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: closed: 2 13/16 in x 4 3/16 in; 7.1374 cm x 10.6426 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 3 in x 4 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 7.62 cm x 11.1125 cm x 4.7625 cm