Some Most Unusual Spectacles: A Holiday Adventure Story
When you collect anything seriously, you develop sources. Eyewear is no different. One of my best was a very old man, with a long scar on his face and an archaic Brooklyn accent, right...
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Benjamin Franklin Bifocals, suitable for Scrooge or Santa.
A fellow asked me recently about the first appearance of octagonal eyeglasses. He had thought they were an aesthetic mutation of the 1920s which flourished and declined before WWII. This is not so. Octagonal...
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