product code : k8435 : £ 105

• Edwardian silver metal frame marked ALUMINICA


• Can be glazed with Rx or sunglasses lenses.

condition

• lenses : n/a


• frame : very good


• fit : very good

size

• face : 112mm


• lens width : 36mm


• lens height : 27mm


• bridge : 28mm


• arms : n/a - cable arms

other info

• This frame looks to be made in the early Edwardian period
  
  although the style was made from the last part of the
  
  18th century. It is known as the Riding Bow frame as the
  
  cable temples would help keep the frame on when riding a
  
  horse. Of course, when cars became popular after WW1,
  
  this style became less necessary and gradually disappeared.
  
  'Aluminica' was a type of frame made by the American
  
  Opitcal Co. in Southbridge, Massachusetts. We've seen it
  
  in a trade mark list of theirs dated 1911. We're not sure of
  
  the exact make up of the frame, but it is obviously an alloy
  
  of steel and aluminium. And it was obviously a success as
  
  look at it here: 100 years on and it looks fantastic.
  
  NB: these frames were meant to be small as they were
  
  intended to frame the eyes, not the face as frames do
  
  today. But it is a size that would fit men or women.
  
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