Opera Glasses
date: label: date made
content: 1860-1880
name: label: maker
content: Chevalier
notes: label: Description
content: One eyepiece barrel is marked “Docteur / Arthur Chevalier” and the other “Paris / 158 Palais Royal.” 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.
label: Description
content: Arthur Chevalier (1830-1874) began in business around 1860, taking charge of the optical firm begun by his grandfather, Charles Chevalier, and continued by his father, Louis Vincent Chevalier. M. Avizard bought the firm in 1881.
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur Chevalier, <i>Catalogue Explicatif et Illustré des Instruments d’Optique et de Météorologie</i> (Paris, 1860), pp. 16-20.
label: Description
content: Paolo Brenni, “19th Century French Scientific Instrument Makers. II: The Chevalier Dynasty,” <i>Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society</i> 39 (1993): 11–14.
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.336810
label: catalog number
content: 336810
label: accession number
content: 1978.2216
objectType: label: Object Name
content: opera glasses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: closed: 1 7/16 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 7/16 in; 3.6576 cm x 8.255 cm x 6.1976 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 4 1/16 in x 2 7/16 in; 4.1275 cm x 10.31875 cm x 6.19125 cm