A pair of poet WB Yeats's iconic spectacles sold for 20 times the guide price at auction last night. The gilt-framed pince-nez glasses and spectacle cord - believed to date back to the 19th century - ...
He works in mysterious ways.
These circular reading glasses would have been held on the nose with the pince-nez mechanism when in use and then hung from the gold chain when not. The solid loop would have fitted around the ear to ...
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