Spectacles
notes: label: Description
content: Spectacles with a metal frame and a “TRADE-AUROCONE-MARK / PAT. NOV. 16. 97” inscription. Siegfried G. Marschutz introduced the term Aurocone to commerce in 1897 and obtained a trademark two years later. According to advertisements, the “Marschutz Patent” Aurocone spectacles “are the only practical comfort-giving Spectacles on the market.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Ophthalmology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: R. S. Moody
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.317912.035
label: accession number
content: 317912
label: catalog number
content: 317912.035
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectacles
label: Other Terms
content: Vision Aids
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, gold(?) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, zylovite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: extended: 2.7 cm x 16.5 cm x 12 cm; 1 1/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, extended: 1 1/2 in x 4 3/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 11.1125 cm x 12.065 cm