Strope opera glasses
date: label: date made
content: 1870-1890
name: label: used by
content: Mason, Catalina Juliana Myers
notes: label: Description
content: This is a metal instrument (probably brass) covered with orange celluloid speckled with small metal stars. The cross-hatching on the surface, visible through the celluloid, was probably produced by a method known as engine turning. The objective lenses are 35 mm in diameter. The length is 6.3 cm closed. The barrels are flared. One eye tube is marked “L’Ingenieur / Strope / Optician” and the other “Bréveté / 24 Palais Royal / Paris.”
label: Description
content: G. Strope was active in the 1870s, enjoyed a high-end location in Paris, and advertised his wares in books written for foreign tourists.
label: Description
content: This example came to the Smithsonian in 1922, in the large bequest of Cassie Mason Myers Julian James.
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: Estate of Cassie Mason Myers Julian-James
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.033467
label: catalog number
content: 033467
label: accession number
content: 70138
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: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: inlaid metal star (barrel style)