Featured Unidentified opera binocular

Can anyone help me place this binoculars to a particular opera house and date it.
No markings on binoculars or case. There is a fly (I think it is a fly), on a case clasp.

Thanks in advance.

 

Very similar here

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/202308253332

Accidently came across them yesterday while search for french enamel oddities

 

That is way too much money for this item...
Yet it doesn't tell to what opera house this binoculars belong

 

@Shangas .... will hopefully have more info.....

 

More likely a bee.

 

Lemaire? Scroll down. Also see this auction.

 

Certainly looks the same. But mine is unmarked. Well by the looks I have to assume that Lemaire is the name.

Thanks much for your help.

 

French bee = fly...

 

Is it possible the case is Lemaire but not original to the glasses?

Ce n'est pas une mouche!

 

People had their own opera glasses, especially this fancy. The glasses you'd find in seat back pockets with a coin release were very basic.
There is often no need for things to have any marks, these are obviously French from around 1880.

Branding stuff is a 20th C. phenomonen. Up till then the shop you bought stuff from was the guarantee of quality, people knew and presumably trusted the local retailer but would have no clue if some distant maker was any good or not.
Mass advertising and a literate population are responsible for the plague of Brands, and being inculcated with the brand ethos makes modern people apply the idea to antiques,

Mostly it is irrelevant who made what, what matters is the quality. It does take a bit longer to learn to evaluate quality, but it is something that is intrinsic to the object, not a name stamped on.

 

@Lennyt, yours are Beautiful!!!!!! And don't appear to have the damage that the ones in the link DO!!!!!!! Pricey, gorgeous little gems, aren't they!!!!!

 

A pair like that would've been sold by a jeweler or optician, not an opera-house. And would've been sold for-keeps.

The BUMBLEBEE is the logo of LEMAIRE OF PARIS, a famous manufacturer of opera-glasses.

These would be 1880-1910 in date.

 

What are the eye pieces made of ?

 

From what I could see of the ones in the link, I thought they looked like MOP.....but I have on EXTREMELY rare occasion known to be wrong....

 

Most that I've seen were celluloid or similar, mounted in brass, and sometimes decorated with MoP.

 

Here is more pictures for those who interested...

 

The case is definitely LeMaire. I have one identical to that. If the glasses are original to the case, then they'll be LeMaire as well, and SOMEWHERE on the bridge, there will be a little picture of a bumblebee. Trust me, it's there.

It'll take you all day to find it, but it's there.