"Jumelle Duchesse" Opera Glasses
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1930
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass instrument with pearl on the barrels, eyecups and center focus. The barrels are flared. The objective lenses are 30 mm in diameter. The length is 5 cm closed. The words “Jumelle Duchesse” appear in script the cross brace at the eye end.
label: Description
content: The French word “Jumelle” meaning twin was widely adopted for binocular opera and field glasses in the early nineteenth century. The term “Jumelle Duchesse” was used for small but powerful opera glasses with 12 lenses, in which each eye piece and each objective was a triple achromat. Many opera glasses of this sort were made in Paris. Some were available in the United States by 1859.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Evelyn May Woolston
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.237652.001
label: catalog number
content: 237652.001
label: accession number
content: 237652
objectType: label: Object Name
content: opera glasses
label: Object Type
content: opera glasses
label: Other Terms
content: opera glasses; Opticals; Accessories Carried; Female
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shell (overall material)