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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 195385, member: 44"]The pair in your 2nd posting are called pince-nez. Think of Pres. Teddy Roosevelt. FDR worn them also. They usually had a thin chain attached to them. On these you can see where it was attached to the left lens in the 3rd pic *up.* The chain was a safety chain of sorts for it had a clamp or pin on the end that attach to the person's clothing. My grandmother worn them back in the early 1900s when teaching school. Hers have a patent date on the pin that retracts the chain of 1903 and 1910. The pic has the maker's name Ketcham & McDougall. These rimless pince-nez seem to have a hard bridge rather than a spring bridge. I believe when spring bridges came out, they were preferred rather than hard bridges because they stayed on the nose better. Now I can't tell you anymore about the glasses because they are not shape enough. Good clear close-ups of the bridge area is needed in trying to ID antique glasses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cropping your pictures would enlarge the views and possibly make them easier to see. Also editing them (adjusting their brightness, contrast, etc) would certainly help us.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have taken the liberty of editing one of your pics in hopes of seeing it better. Your pic of them is:</p><p>Weight-wise: 277 KB</p><p>Dimensional-wise: 1536 pixels wide X 2560 pix high.</p><p>The edited pic is:</p><p>Weight-wise: 38 KB</p><p>Dimensional-wise: 519 pix wide X 327 pix high</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]55470[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This site may have help in IDIng these glassess. There used to be a pretty good site for ID antique glasses called Vintage Eyewear, .... at vintageiwear.com, but it isn't online anymore. <a href="http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 195385, member: 44"]The pair in your 2nd posting are called pince-nez. Think of Pres. Teddy Roosevelt. FDR worn them also. They usually had a thin chain attached to them. On these you can see where it was attached to the left lens in the 3rd pic *up.* The chain was a safety chain of sorts for it had a clamp or pin on the end that attach to the person's clothing. My grandmother worn them back in the early 1900s when teaching school. Hers have a patent date on the pin that retracts the chain of 1903 and 1910. The pic has the maker's name Ketcham & McDougall. These rimless pince-nez seem to have a hard bridge rather than a spring bridge. I believe when spring bridges came out, they were preferred rather than hard bridges because they stayed on the nose better. Now I can't tell you anymore about the glasses because they are not shape enough. Good clear close-ups of the bridge area is needed in trying to ID antique glasses. Cropping your pictures would enlarge the views and possibly make them easier to see. Also editing them (adjusting their brightness, contrast, etc) would certainly help us. I have taken the liberty of editing one of your pics in hopes of seeing it better. Your pic of them is: Weight-wise: 277 KB Dimensional-wise: 1536 pixels wide X 2560 pix high. The edited pic is: Weight-wise: 38 KB Dimensional-wise: 519 pix wide X 327 pix high [ATTACH=full]55470[/ATTACH] This site may have help in IDIng these glassess. There used to be a pretty good site for ID antique glasses called Vintage Eyewear, .... at vintageiwear.com, but it isn't online anymore. [URL]http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/index.html[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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