product code : k7338 : £ 95

• 1950's grey plastic frame marked
  CALOBAR C25-51


• Original AO Calobar green glass lenses

condition

• lenses : good - 7


• frame : very good


• fit : very good

size

• face : 137mm


• lens width : 51mm (marked on frame)


• lens height : 41mm


• arms : 150mm

other info

• Popular 50's shape from American Optical,
  
  very similar to (and obviously competing with)
  
  Ray-Ban's Wayfarer of the same period. AO's
  
  sunglasses sales reached an all time high
  
  in 1956, no doubt due to styles like this one.
  
  AO advertised their Calobar green lenses
  
  as blocking out all harmful uv rays as well as
  
  "reducing visible light transmission". This pair,
  
  the C25 (later called Saratoga) we can tell
  
  is a very early pair due to flared temple ends,
  
  the markings on the frame and the colour: Smoke
  
  was one of the original 3 made, ie mid-50's.