A Pair of English Ivory Veneered Opera Glasses, Width of first 4 7/8 inches.

Each in overall good complete condition. Focal mechanisms operate smoothly. Lenses intact. Focuses well. The largest pair with cracks and losses to ivory eye pieces, also exhibiting various dregrees of cracks to barrels with the longest extending approximately an inch and a half, monogrammed WC, focal wheel with full length crack bridge engraved B.W. Dixey Optician to the Queen Newbond St. London. Gilt metal mounts with moderate wear to copper base metal. Chinoiserie decoration example with cracks to both eye pieces, focal wheel with full length crack outer lens with dents and paint loss. Geometric monocular with various cracks the longest extending approximately one inch, gilt metal mounts with some pitting and wear. The last example with wear to gilt mounts and ivory having a full length split adjustment lens moves but fits snug with some paint loss to eye piece.

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