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Description: | Lorgnettes were invented by Robert Bretel Bate, a London optician, in 1825. They were favoured by fashionable people who found that spectacles had become rather common. This type of lorgnette with the long tortoiseshell handle was known as the 'dowager duchess' type. With the lenses folded into the handle it could be carried in a pocket. This pair of was made in 1930. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East fashion small business made in the North East health | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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