product code : k8288 : £ 185

• 1930s/40s translucent shaded pink plastic
  frame, unmarked


• Can be glazed with Rx or sunglasses lenses.

condition

• lenses : n/a


• frame : very good


• fit : very good

size

• face : 121mm


• lens width : 43mm


• lens height : 38mm


• bridge : 19mm


• arms : 125mm

other info

• Translucent lucite all through this frame means no maker's
  
  name or mark, but the angular shape puts it into the art-deco
  
  period and perhaps through into the post-war 1940s. There's
  
  something sassy about this design and as it's also an
  
  unconventional size, it was probably bespoke. Catalogues
  
  of stock frames contain nothing like this fashion-forward
  
  style - choices for women at that time were mostly round
  
  dark acetates or round dark windsor rims. The colour too
  
  is modern - see this still from a 1938 British Pathe short on
  
  applying makeup where women were being advised to wear
  
  these more "inobtrusive" light coloured plastic frames. The
  
  warmish pink colour is wonderful and the light bounces off
  
  this early cellulose acetate aka lucite or acrylic; it also
  
  accentuates the crisp angles and edges. Imagine this jazz-
  
  baby with a shingled bob, in a Poirot plot or on the pages of
  
  a fashion magazine. The quality is very high, the pin heads
  
  smoothed off and the wide, library arms - for a woman's frame
  
  - with rounded ball ends. Very rare and in remarkable condition
  
  for nearly a century old, ready for your lenses.
  
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