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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: J. Rowley

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290. ROWLEY, J., Wolverhampton — Manufacturer.

Front of a pair of spectacles worked out of a solid piece of cast-steel.

Improved spectacles, the sides being so formed that they may be used without being placed upon the head; they also include Braham's patent.

Pair of spectacles, with several improvements.

Spectacles, exhibited for their extreme lightness, worked out of best cast-steel; weight, 2 pennyweights.

Globular glass travelling spectacles.

Wire-gauze eye-preserving spectacles.

Horse-shoe eye-preserving travelling spectacles.

Another pair (finer).

Small oval eye spectacle, preserver glasses.

A similar pair, oblong.

Small octagon eye spectacles.

Folding hand-spectacle, or double eye-glass.

Inclosed spring hand-spectacle, or double eye-glass.

Folding hand-spectacle, or double eyeglass.

Oval single eye-glass for reading.

Octagon single eye-glass for reading.

Hexagon single eye-glass for reading.

Eye-glass handle, a preservative for the glass.


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