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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 363131, member: 25"]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.</p><p>There is often no need for things to have any marks, these are obviously French from around 1880.</p><p><br /></p><p>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. </p><p>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,</p><p><br /></p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 363131, member: 25"]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.[/QUOTE]
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