Marion opera glasses
date: label: date made
content: 1875-1925
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass instrument with cylindrical barrels. The objective lenses are 27 mm in diameter. The length is 4.5 cm closed. The barrels are covered with a dark material. The handle is missing. The eyecups are marked “MARION JNE * / PASSAGE DE L’OPERA NO 15 *.”
label: Description
content: The design suggests a date in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Marion has not been identified.
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: Edgar S. Giles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.261981.001
label: catalog number
content: 261981.001
label: accession number
content: 261981
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, tortoise (overall material)