product code : k8434 : £ 105

• 1960's two-tone banded pale grey and
  bronze plastic frame marked, BR


• Can be glazed with Rx or sunglasses lenses.

condition

• lenses : n/a


• frame : good


• fit : very good

size

• face : 126mm


• lens width : 46mm (marked on frame)


• lens height : 32mm


• bridge : 22mm


• arms : 135mm

other info

• A wonderful 'cat-eye' frame from the 1960's when eyeshapes
  
  were slinkier and more elongated. The 1950's are often cited
  
  as the cat-eye optical years but they really are the next decade,
  
  with shallower eyepieces that curve up and out to those points -
  
  here adorned with a sprinkling of coloured rhinestones and tiny
  
  brass studs, surrounding star-headed hinge pins. The multi-coloured
  
  stones - called then 'Aurora Borealis' - and the studs have been
  
  set into the acetate and have been chosen to compliment the
  
  unusual acetate: a banded two-tone with a pale grey colour a layer
  
  over the darker mink. We are not 100% sure who the 'BR' is in the
  
  gold fancy script in a horizontal lozenge, stamped inside each
  
  temple of this fabulous frame. It may be the firm of B. Robinson of
  
  New York who have quite some heritage, starting in 1926 with
  
  founder Benjamin Robinson. They are still going today so perhaps
  
  they may contact us. We would love to know more about whoever
  
  'BR' may be, after finding this frame.
  
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