Antique Folding Reading Glasses Victorian era‎ Opera Glasses

Antique art nouveau sterling silver lorgnettes and chain. Opera Glasses which fold for the more discerning ladies were more commonly termed as lorgnettes. These folding lorgnettes collapse via a spring and snap shut in place tightly via a notch in the silver handled case. Superbly designed with typical Edwardian fret work on the handle frame and machine cut chevrons on the eyepiece rims. The tightly wound chain is another facet of this period made around 1910.