Spectacles
date: label: date made
content: ca 1750
name: label: owner; user
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: The Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut used these steel spectacles around 1750. The spectacles are hinged at the temple with round loops for the earpiece which was typical for mid-18th century glasses. The spectacles are missing one lens and one earpiece.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
topic: label: Subject
content: Eyeglasses
label: Subject
content: Optics
label: Subject
content: Personal Accessories
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006506.01
label: catalog number
content: 6506.01
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectacles
label: Object Type
content: spectacles
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (lens material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; .9525 cm x 12.065 cm x 3.4925 cm