Vintage Sunglasses

[Dinerman]

I got the brown pair in today.

I got the brown lensed ones in today as a backup for my green lensed ones, which are pretty fragile.

 

[Feraud]

Dinerman, those are some lovely shades.

 

[Jerekson]

Indeed...it's very lucky that you were able to locate a clone!

 

[Dinerman]

I went on a bit of a sunglasses kick. There'll be some more soon.

 

[Dinerman]

Today's

Unmarked. It took a bit of steel wool to get all the corrosion off of the frames, but now they're nice and shiny. Curved glass lenses in a smoke gray tint.

 

[cookie]

Wow..I'm drooling all over my keyboard at those glasses...

Hot sunnies!:eusa_clap

 

[Jerekson]

Very cool, Dman. Very early looking indeed. Almost reminds me of the civil war era, but I won't date them that far.

 

[Dinerman]

They're sometime post phone #

 

[cowboy76]

They're sometime post phone #

very nice,..Allentown, PA is 20 minutes north of where I live,....

 

[cowboy76]

Unmarked. It took a bit of steel wool to get all the corrosion off of the frames, but now they're nice and shiny. Curved glass lenses in a smoke gray tint.

those are great, I'm glad you made a point to show them up close!!

 

[cowboy76]

Ok, so I received the goggles the weekend before last, but am now just getting the chance to post a photo. So, here it is! The lenses are amber as shown previously in the photos I posted.

they're safety glasses,....some have thought them to be sunglasses or driving glasses. I'm a boilermaker,....I love history,....and have been reasearching the blue collar worker world of the 30s, 40s and 50s.

nice glasses.

 

[cowboy76]

Here's a pair that i got off the 'bay a little time ago

They came with the case and an original cleaning cloth that was stuffed down in the case.

Holy crap!,....I had a pair of modern glasses when I was in high school, they looked exactly like those in the lower pic!! I wonder what happened to those??

 

[cowboy76]

These might be vintage welding goggles. Thoughts anyone?

VB

you cannot weld with sunglasses.

safety glasses with a tint were commonplace in shops and industry where there might be bright ligt emmitted from an oxy-acetaline torch or grinder, etc. Welding shields were used in the mid 30s and onward, though once in a while, you'd see some guy without brains using burning goggles to weld with!! :eusa_doh: that guy probably went blind in about one year of doing that.

Early welding was known as "gas welding" much like brazing....

 

[Dinerman]

Willson

 

[cowboy76]

Good for you,...great collection!!!

 

[Dinerman]

I got a very interesting pair in today.
Everything about them says early- but the style is something i've never seen before . Cable temples, windsor nose, BIG lenses with a curve to them, so they wrap around your face. Maybe they were car goggles?
They look very similar to these- http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-AUTO-GL...ryZ48559QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
which are AutoGlas sunglasses, and I've found Auteglas as an alternate spelling/ misspelling.

 

[Dinerman]

And a pair of aviators. Want to hazard a guess as to the date?

 

[Marty M.]

Dinerman's Specs.

Dinerman, no one wears sunglasses like you. You take lots of risk's with your different pairs that you wear. But each pair always looks good. You're a heck of a lot braver then me. Bravo to you.
Marty Mathis

 

[Blackjack]

The best vintage looking sunglasses

Of the ones I have, I like the Ray-Ban Clubmaster the best.
http://www.framesdirect.com/Common/Catalog/FrameLargeImage.asp?P1=2755&P2=s&P3=115247&P4=5142

But does anyone know what brand sunglasses Nick Cage was wearing in the new National Treasure movie??????

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Housekeeping

I merged all of the Vintage Sunglasses threads into one.

Let's keep all of the discussions together on this thread.

Thanks!