Featured Glasses

Nope, no manganese glasses this time

A few weeks ago I bought this pince-nez

with this pouch

of P.W. Hiele, Purveyor to the court, in Utrecht (the Netherlands)
A pair of P.W. Hiele's glasses are included in the collection of the Central Museum of Utrecht https://collectie.centraalmuseum.nl/details/collection/15850
And in this short 1917 vid, you can see his store in the background

And yesterday, I bought this pince-nez

in this very worn case

Only when I was editing the pics to upload them here, I noticed there is a logo/text on the case. Unfortunately it's too faded to read the name, but it seems to say it's an optician in Amsterdam.

Any thoughts on how old these glasses are?

And, together with this pince-nez, I also bought this lorgnette (or is this called a lancetier?)

also with a pouch

1920s/30s?

 

Very nice catch, each of them, Marote...Thanks!

 

all are nice !!!

 

And useful ... as my eyesight has deteriorated a lot

 

The lornette would make steampunkers everywhere jealous.

 

I picked these 18k French pince-nez a few years ago for $28. Can’t sell them now without them getting scrapped.

 

Put your reading glasses prescription in there and put them to work?

 

oh hell , yeah !!!!!!

 

for years i always thought it was prince nez, and when a pair came up would always think who was this prince nez fella anyway ? and why does he have glasses named after him ?

 

i've got these that test as gold, though my gold buyer wanted nothing to do with them as they are unmarked and reckons they are probaby just filled, but took the gold right down on a test, there are also a few (of the same) i've seen online where some state gold and some don't

are yours marked anund ?

 

The glasses of the first pince-nez are probably the best match for my eyes, but those glasses are the least comfortable to use.
The 2nd pince-nez is a bit better in use, but it's only good for reading at a close distance, as anything at 20 cm and beyond becomes a blur.
The glasses of the lorgnette are somewhere in between those two, and it's easy to use, so I guess I'll be using the lorgnette

 

any marks on the under of the torty (2nd ones) nose piece Marote, tis the place to looky

 

Nope, no marks on mine. I even used the lorgnette, to make sure I wasn't missing it due to poor eyesight

 

that guy from the repair shop always keeps a second pair close for a switcharoo. only ever seen two but hoping theres an episode where he has to go out in the sun

 

Sometimes he even uses both pairs

 

i'm short sighted but only wear mine for gaming, so everyone and me just look a little nicely blurred or airbrushed

put my glasses on and i'm like oh no no no, she's got make up particles in her lil blonde moustache

 

I'm always cleaning my wife's glasses....... half the time it's as though she's looking thru a fog...
when I clean them.......I get a shriek of delight !!!

 

I have old glasses I use for indoors, and newer ones for driving. For reading I most often just take them off. For sun... I got goes-overs at estate sales for a buck a pair. They're meant for people who've had catact surgery and have side protection. It beats paying $500 for sunglasses that I'd have to remember to change out to go indoors, and this insurance doesn't cover.

 

Worn contacts since I was a kid. My glasses are hi index and they are still coke bottles that warp my facial appearance. I'm so used to the contacts that wearing the glasses give me a headache because I forget I have to move my whole head and not just my eyeballs.

I have a handful of pince nez that my grandmother horded from two sides of the family. Includes one with a hook on a chain to go over the ear, a yellow tinted pair and a metal case shaped like Marote's purple lined one.