Just won: uberretro glasses

[Alon]

I can't wait to visit an optician with these babies and ask for the right lenses to be installed!

Vintage 1877 pinch nose eye glasses. Brass spring and tortoise shell frame. Heck, for all I know, these are Offenbach's very own:

 

[Fletch]

I think he wore 'em Offenbachwards...lol

Good find! Best of luck with them.

 

[Cherry_Bombb]

Stunning! What sort of chain will you attach to them?

 

[Alon]

Cherry Bomb, from photographs I've looked at, I've found that typically men did not wear chains on their monocles or pince nez. Usually it's a thin ribbon or an embroidered string. Consider:

Joseph Chamberlain

Theodore Roosevelt

And the photo of Offenbach above.

Perhaps women attached them to chains because its more decorative? Do you have any information on the subject?

 

[Alon]

And while we're on the subject of pinch nose glasses...

The barcarole from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.

 

[Cherry_Bombb]

Aha- always was curious about that...

Do you have one in mind for yours?

 

[BeBopBaby]

Very nice! I've decided that when I need reading glasses (which may be sooner than later), that I will be getting a pair of pince nez like you have pictured. I think I'll wear them on a black satin ribbon around my neck.

 

[scotrace]

Let us know what Mr. Optometrist says? Mine's being balky.