Opera Glasses
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: This is a gold-plated brass instrument with black bakelite handle. The barrels are in part filigreed, and in part covered with simulated tortoise shell. The objective lenses are 24 mm diameter. The words “PAR BREVETE D’INVENTION ET DE PERFECMENT *” appear around each eyepiece--but what patent this refers to is not known. The case is red cardboard lined with silk.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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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.336790
label: catalog number
content: 336790
label: accession number
content: 1978.2216
objectType: label: Object Name
content: opera glasses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 43 cm; 16 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 1/2 in x 5 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 12.7 cm x 6.35 cm